Friday 2 July 2010

WISLEY WITH THE GALLOPING GARDENER

I had a glorious day yesterday visiting Wisley in the company of the Galloping Gardener or Charolette to fellow Blotanical followers. It was lovely to spend the day with someone who shared such an interest in one of my passions.

I make no apologise for a photograph of the rose garden, rather a different perspective than one Charlotte posted, but as Roses are one of my passions I needed to post one photo of the Wisley rose garden at it's best.

The Country Garden is looking delightful with it's informal planting even though displayed in formal beds. I confess to being very disappointed years ago when this was first re developed with my love for cottage gardening, but I have to say that once the plants settled in after about a year it has been a delight for me to visit ever since.


One of several small town gardens which I always enjoy visiting because they are easier to identify with, with my own small garden.

Here the Cornus Kusa Chinensis is looking rather sickly, there used to be a very large tree of this where the Rambling roses used to be but it developed some disease and eventually died. When I saw both these trees some years ago I was so taken by their beautiful appearance with their bracts that I decided to buy one for my garden and this year was the first year it flowered and produced the lovely bracts. Of course I did what Wisely had done and planted in an open site in full sun. It was a mistake I do not think it enjoys full midsummer sun and mine needs a regular watering to perk it up. I notice that in the woodland area at Wisley the other side of the stream the Cornus trees do much better, perhaps a combination of some shade and damper ground.


Again in the small town gardens.


and another town garden


This is the Herb garden which again is planted in a formal setting but of course herbs are informal in their nature and the combination is very pleasing.


One last photo of Charlotte in the Herb garden. What a lovely interesting lady she is. I have so enjoyed her blog as she Gallops off to all sorts of gardens all over the World and am quite in awe of her achievements with the The Raven Foundation - a project to build a hospital for rural villagers in Rajasthan. I am sure that any donations to the Raven Foundation will be appreciated as I am sure any good publicity for the Foundation will be too.

13 comments:

  1. Haven't been for years. It's looking really good. What great pictures. Thanks.

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  2. Wonderful pictures. I'm sure it was even more wonderful seeing it in person, and with a fellow garden enthusiast such a Charlotte is.

    FlowerLady

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  3. It sounds like an excellent day garden viewing. I enjoyed all of the photos of each section, with so many ideas and details to appreciate. I especially love the town gardens in the third and fourth last photos. The one had the short brick wall for structure, and the other had the short clipped hedge.

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  4. Glad you had such a good time with Charlotte.
    How lovely to see some of Wisley through your eyes, like Hermes, I haven't been for years.

    I do wish I had smelly-vision - the scent from the roses would be lovely
    K

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  5. Joanne, this is a beautiful garden. You went there with Charlotte? Hey, that's wonderful! Have a great weekend with some good relaxation.

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  6. Lovely photos, I'd love to go to Wisley one day but dread the hoardes so I always put it off! lol

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  7. What a beautiful place! I've never been there, but i do hope i will have the opportunity one day...

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  8. Happy memories!
    How wonderful that you could visit the gardens with another gardening enthusiast! Did you two ever stop talking??

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  9. I bet you had a really nice time with Charlotte. The gardens are just beautiful. It's interesting to see how they planted the informal gardens in a formal way, but I do like how they look. One day I'd love to see it all in person.

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  10. Thanks for showing us Wisley. I hope one day I will get to see it for myself. Beautiful.

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  11. Gorgeous photos, as always! Looks like a little slice of heaven.

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  12. thanks for the tour of Wisley, it's a garden I would love to visit one day. But you have given me a real feel for it.

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  13. Dear Joanne, I am so glad to scroll down to find this post I missed. I love the wild feeling of the herb and rose gardens. How fun to be able to share all this beauty with lovely Charlotte! She is amazing!! Her Raven Foundation is such a great achievement. Wonderful post.

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