Rodmarton Manor.

Rodmarton Manor. 

Gloucestershire

I have been waiting for Galanthus Rodmarton to open fully before posting the rest of the photo's on the blog, this Galanthus came from Otto, originally from Marcus Harvey. I would love to visit this garden in February as apparently there are just sheets of Galanthus, what a wonderful sight it must be.

A few years ago the Galanthus weekend was held at Rodmarton.

My most favourite garden next to Wisley is Rodmarton in England, which we found by accident.
An Arts and Craft Garden and House, has been owned by three generations of the same family and is in unaltered condition today. Conceived to look like a series of cottages on a village street. The garden is maintained by the gardener who lives in the Gate Keepers house and the owner, who must work devilishly hard as it is a large garden, unpretentious and so full of character in every corner.

The Troughery decorated with stone feeding troughs collected from the farm and planted with alpines, with Saxifraga's spilling and tumbling over the edges of the troughs.

A rustic stone pergola, covered in flame-red Vitis cognettiae in the Autumn, with stone seats to sit and look at the large carved beams, and the round stone columns, and vistas out every side.

The three hugh glass houses.

The stone summerhouse denotes the end of the double border enclosed by high hedges, the borders were refurbished in 1990 and are 13 feet wide.

Gate house 

Vista's at every angle, but my favourite.

Thank you to Ray for scanning our photo's in Photoshop so we could see them.

Don't forget our meeting this Saturday 26th August is our day for Garden Visits starting at Post Office Farm 10.00am then on to Kathy Newings Garden.