September 1st 2002

Yesterday we took a day off and visited Abbey Gardens in Malmesbury Wiltshire. We met up with Marian and Roger Peacock, who are the owners of Barum Garden in Clivedon near Bristol, they also open their garden during the year for the National Garden Scheme. See our links page for their web site. After a pub lunch we set off to tour the gardens. The house sets off the garden a treat, and there were Hedychium Gardnerianum
and Brugmansia in flower near the front of the house, we were a bit disappointed with the garden overall and would mark it as say seven out of ten, but worth the trip to see.

   Marian and Roger                        Lyn

  

Pictures of part of Abbey Gardens

In our garden we have our last opening for this year, next weekend the 8th September. It  is a nice sunny morning here today and we have been out dead heading the flowers and trimming the edges of the lawns, last night we had temperatures as low as 7c surely chilly for the last day of August.

September 6th 2002
Two days before our opening, and we have already planned some alterations to the front lawn and flower beds, and maybe even an archway at the front gate, room for more clematis? All this in the weeks after the opening of course.
We still have many clematis flowering, some are flowering now for the first time this year. I will ask the Head Gardener to make a list of them, and I will post it here very soon

September 7th 2002
As promised the list of Clematis flowering today.
Front Garden 
Alsa Spath
Arabella
Gravetye Beauty
Julia Correvon
Aljonushka
Tangutica
Alba Luxurians
James Mason
Dutchess of Albany
Polish Spirit
Blue Boy
Davidii
China Purple
Petite Faucon  

Back Garden
The President
Abundance
Jackmaii Superba
Huldine
Princess Diana
Florida Sieboldi  (in Greenhouse)
Arabella

A total of 20 out of the 56 different Clematis we have.