Yellow rapeseed and bright red poppies. Near Masham, North Yorkshire. A little 'Impressionists' moment, to share. More mundanely.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapeseed
Month: July 2013
And it was all Yellow
Monochrome doesn't have to be grey. A change I thought, to orange.
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A Yorkshire Tale
Newby Hall & Gardens, Ripon A week exploring North Yorkshire and much to see was there! Newby Hall & Gardens, near Ripon, was near the top of the list of attractions and a real plant hunters delight with much that is rare and unusual. The National Collection of Cornus kousa, a whole garden of salvias…
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Songs of Summer
Summer Song, a rose with a quite unique colour, a rich burnt orange, is part of the David Austin stable. Fragrant, with glossy leaves and a lax, arching habit. A new introduction, Carolyn Knight, is a sport of Summer Song, with a chamois-gold colouring that will be a very appealing partner I'm sure.
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Gertrude & Geoff
The rose bed outside the visitor centre to Syon House and Gardens planted up with four David Austin varieties with low hedges of box and lavender. Gertrude Jekyll, Geoff Hamilton, Winchester Cathedral and The Generous Gardener.
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The nights are drawing in…
No garden is complete in autumn without a Michelmas daisy and Aster tongolensis 'Berggarten' is an immensely pretty one. A creeping, mat forming perennial it is quite different from the taller, more familiar species and starts flowering right at the start of summer. Its fine- petalled, lavender-blue daisy rays are dotted with soft orange centres…
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