Rosa sericea pteracantha/Rosa omeiensis pteracantha Rather an odd heading but then the thorns of this rose are spectacular, glowing like rubies against morning and evening sun - and the clattering - if you are near one of these bushes on a windy winter day, it makes quite a din. Big percussion thorns these. Of the…
Day: July 8, 2013
Parcevall Hall Gardens, Yorkshire Dales
Just pictures, for now, of this fascinating Arts and Crafts Garden in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales. Such a magical place and combining the best of all worlds - a cultivated garden amid so much wild beauty.
Scampston Walled Garden
The Plantsman's Walk, Or a little less than one quarter of it, leading into the Walled Gardens at Scampston in North Yorkshire. An avenue of limes with a border mainly of spring-flowering plants, including Paeonie rockii and Edgworthia chrystantha (two of my favourite plants, featured earlier in these entries), underplanted with many bulbs, and autumn…
Red and Yellow
Yellow rapeseed and bright red poppies. Near Masham, North Yorkshire. A little 'Impressionists' moment, to share. More mundanely.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed