A BRIEF TOUR OF MY GARDEN IN EAST SUSSEX, UK --
AND SOME OF THE PLANTS
and other things YOU CAN SEE THERE......  

My favourite rose, Buff Beauty
 Shrub rose ~ Buff Beauty		 I live here 
The house ~ built in 1946 by my grandfather
as a pair of farm workers' cottages  
~ I dream of turning it into one house one day ~  
for the moment I live in the left-hand half		   Scree - now more overgrown 
Scree bed leading down to pond 		early to flower this is a really attractive species clematis
Clematis macropetala
Moss roses are fascinating - people exclaim "Oh it has bad greenfly infestation!" not so - this is the mossy look 
Moss rose ~ William Lobb		 This rose has the look of being fashioned from tissue paper 
Damask rose ~ Madame Hardy		 a handsome caterpillar found on Salix caprea 
Puss moth caterpillar		 these butterflies are very rare indeed in this part of the country 
Apatura iris - in all his glory 
The under wings of these lovely butterflies are beautifully marked
Female apatura iris 		useful shrub for a warm wall , the Moroccan broom 
Cytisus battandieri ~ moroccan broom ~ 
pineapple scent
 The top pond is maturing nicely
Across the pond from the back of the house

 
Whispering bed with aspen and grasses 
 
Across the pond towards the house
sadly this Mullein does not set seed and is not very long lived  
Mullein ~ Helen Johnson
 although this plant combination takes a lot of pruning and care I feel the result is well worth it
OK it's me again,
 this wall with chaenomeles
 japonica 'Port Eliot' and  
clematis armandii is my pride and joy 

The industry of these small insects is truly amazing
Summer 2000 an amazingly beautiful
wasps' nest hanging in the shrubbery
 This pretty buddleia flowers in May and has an attractive arching habit 
Buddleia alternifolia 

The fish are growing apace and breed most years
some of the koi in the pond
steely blue and very prickly
I am fond of this eryngium

sadly this tree has now died
The cat - she likes to climb trees, especially if there is a dog about!
A mighty hunter who has been known to catch grey squirrels and weasels,
but a deal too fond of bringing her trophies into the house in order to devour them.

this one takes a while to load - but it shows how the vegetation has developed in the pond
One of the less welcome visitors to the pond - Old Nog - the heron
luckily I think most of the big fish are more than he can cope with

 

Garden Sites

Royal Horticultural Society
Hillier Arboretum
Chelsea Physic Garden
Henry Doubleday  
Research Association 
Monticello (the home of Thomas Jefferson)
Botanical Gardens in N. America
West Green House
The Eden Project

Aberglasney Garden
Kew Gardens
Gardens in London
County Focus
Postcode Plants Database
National Gardens Scheme
Garden History Society
The English Garden
(the magazine for all who love beautiful gardens)

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amazing how different the building looks from this angle
A different view of the house taken with a powerful telephoto from across
the fields - the large weeping willow tree behind the house has since
been cut down, the roots were invading the drains with
unpleasantly odourous effect!