Knightshaye Court Gardens

[puddleshark]

Comments

[changeling72]

The asters look like Michaelmas Daisies - more or less the right time too.

I want turrets!

[puddleshark]

If you like turrets, you would love Knighthayes Court. It is Gothic revival with all the stops pulled out... Turrets everywhere!

I saw the odd patch of Michaelmas Daisies on the journey up - summer's definitely on the way out.

[katiecregon]

I'm a big fan of dahlias in their many forms. It's a late winter/spring thing here. Thank you for this lovely respite from our current weather conditions.

[puddleshark]

You're welcome!

Same here - I never get bored with dahlias. There's just so much going on...

[lnhammer]

Oh hey, flowers that aren't yellow ...

[puddleshark]

I feel like that sometimes too in early spring here, when EVERYTHING IS YELLOW.

There were yellow flowers in the garden too. But I'm not very good at photographing yellow flowers - they nearly always come out overexposed.

[lnhammer]

We get a lot of DYCs around here as well ...

(Interestingly, DYC has an exact Spanish translation: PCA, or p***** compuestas amarillas.)

[puddleshark]

I love it that the same term turns up in Spanish. Identifying dandeloids - a universal problem!

[lizziebelle]

Your mystery plant looks like something I remember seeing in the wildlife sanctuary a while back. I don't remember if I ever found out what it was.

[puddleshark]

The National Trust, who own the gardens, had helpfully labelled almost everything else in the garden. I'm not sure why they missed out this one particularly weird plant. Maybe it wasn't supposed to be there. Or maybe it ate the gardener...

[55nika]

what refined kitchen garden! I am convinced that the beautiful stone in registration of a garden is extremely important

[puddleshark]

It is a vast kitchen garden, containing everything - flowers and vegetables and herbs, apples and soft fruit. Even a small vinyard!

Always something magical about walled gardens - that combination of flowers, sunlight, stone...

[55nika]

stones in my garden - a problem. From the earth when redigging I pull out them much, but they small and ugly. I collected on a beach of a little beautiful pebble for the rock garden

[puddleshark]

Same problem here. Also, very poor acid soil, mostly sand and gravel... Okay for growing heather - not much else!