The Winter Garden. Anglesey Abbey.

Most of us try out to have as many plants for wintertime interest as potential . The trouble is that if they are dotted about the garden they do n’t make much impact . The wonderful winter walk at Anglesey Abbey , Lode , near Cambridge is a optical delectation from beginning to end . You come near it through a tunnel of green coniferous tree and box and eventually you come to a gate . Much of the impingement of the garden come from colored stems , particularlyCornussanguinea‘Winter Beauty ’ I bonk the level of green conifer and bare oak tree trees as a backcloth .. Many of us grow the winter floweringViburnum bodnantense ‘ Dawn ’ , but how endearing it looks growing in a little woodlet of frothy pink , under - plant withEuonymus fortunei‘Emerald Gaiety’ . I have cite before how I love the sodding whiteViburnum farrericandididissimum . The white flowers look lovely against the shiny browned shank . Cornus are marvelous for wintertime color and most of us are familiar with the lovely redCornus alba siberica‘Westonbirt ’ . I had never see the gorgeousCornus alba‘Baton Rouge ’ before . It seems even redder and is patently more compact . Behind it are the calcareous white stems ofRubus cockburnianuswhich are lovely in winter but it is very incursive . The red stemmed lime;Tilia platyphyllos‘Rubra ’ is record off to advantage by coppicing it and hold get to the crimson stems at eye degree . Behind it are the lily-livered stem ofCornus flaviramea , and it is under - planted with the delicious- smellingSarcococca hookerianavar.digyna . There are unlike sorts ofSarcococcathroughout the garden and they even draw the car park . regrettably when I was there on Tuesday , it was very cold-blooded and the hard frost of the night before was still lingering . This intend that there was little fragrance in the garden . On the plus side the sun was clamber and the sky was blue . TheSarcococcalooked adorable , delicately frosted although the frost meant that the snowdrops and hellebores were lying limply on the soil . More fragrance was produce by the lovely yellowChimonanthus praecoxvar . luteus.which look wonderful against the blue sky . I did n’t see a gravid variety of Wiccan hazels but thisHamamelis x intermedia‘Barnstedt Gold ’ was see salutary . More lovley winter stems were provided by a grouping of great genus Acer and this wonderful multi - stemmedPrunus serrula . midway along the winter garden walk there is a little garden with a rather androgynous statue in the centre , which is a monument to the first Lord Fairhaven . How golden they are here to have the backdrop of beautiful mature tree diagram .

Of naturally in a winter garden there is plenty of evergreen foliage . ThisGarrya ellipticais drip with endearing lime green tassels . If you want really long I the best to select is ‘ James Roof’The winter garden culminates in the famous birch tree grove ofBetula utilisvar.jacquemontiiwhich has its gleaming blank trunk pressure washed every year . Work has started on an extension of 112 new Tree to the birch rod woodlet will make it even more impressive . Anglesey Abbey is noted for its snowdrops and indeed many newfangled varieties arise here . alas they were looking very sad on this frosty morning so understandably another sojourn will be necessary .

I have a lot of plant life that look just in winter , because I love them so much , but they are disperse about the garden and make very little impact . In my previous garden which was much orotund , I had a winter garden . I will show you what it take care like in a next office when I have had the transparence convert to digital .

Although I only have an Accho here , I have been brooding all winter about make a new winter garden . It will be much smaller than my previous one , but still self-aggrandizing enough , I hope , to make some impact . This is the place marked out for the first phase . It is in a overleap part of the garden which you have n’t seen before . you’re able to see why . I want to leave a path behind it for access code to the pool expanse . In the background knowledge you could see the stumps which were left after dead apple trees were cut down . There is a pile if Sir Henry Joseph Wood waiting to be sawn up for the fervidness . I hate having messy areas of the garden , so 2015 is the yr that this part is to be made presentable . Eventually , I shall continue the winter garden further up the garden , but the second phase may have to waitress until next year . transfer the greensward from the area within the hose and grasp it over is enough of a challenge for now . The turf will descend in very ready to hand for the veggie raised beds because the soil level has settle and they need fill up with more bed . The little plant in the ashen old bag is a Strawberry tree , Arbutus unedowhich I bought a while ago at a ridiculously subjugate cost . It is going to have to have a home turn here somewhere . I have had to have 8 week off gardening , but I am hop-skip to be able to start work in February . I ‘ ll keep you informed of the procession . look on this distance !

82 Responses toThe Winter Garden. Anglesey Abbey.

Oh , how endearing this all is ! You have choose a beautiful garden at the Abbey to show us and have pictured the best of it . All those vertical line , so uplifting . You have state us of great dreams for a new winter garden . It is all so heartening to interpret this optimistic card . Thank you !

Anglesey Abbey has been on my want list for quite some clip now , maybe one day … I agree about collecting winter flowering plant together , like you mine are scatter around the garden . I am trying to get more into the timberland , but I ’m running out of space . I will face onwards to seeing what you plant in your unexampled winter bottom , I ’m certain it will be howling !

A winter garden is something I ’ve been thinking about too , have recently visited the one at Rosemoor . Anglesey Abbey is a huge inspiration . The job for me is where to put it . Too close to the planetary house and it will fill prime real estate which I ’d want full of people of colour in the summer months . Too far from the house and will I be bother to walk to it when it ’s so cold ? You have given me solid food for thought Chloris and a programme may be a - hatching .

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I was specially impressed by the clump of Viburnum bodnantense ‘ sunrise ’ . I have only visualize them as specimens grown on their own , together in a group they develop a young property .

It ’s nearly time here for me to get out and begin making all the changes I have in mind for my garden too . I enjoyed the pic of Anglesey Abbey at the root of your post . calculate forward to see what you do and how you set up your new area . I have an Arbutus unedo too , and I have sex it .

Great exposure of Anglesey Abbey , we visited in summertime time so it is good to see the wintertime garden . It is difficult to know where to site a winter garden , seeable from the house has its reward when the weather is poor . Rosemary Verey in her Scripture , The Garden in Winter , recommends the far end of the garden to promote you to take a walkway in the garden during winter . I shall look forward to determine your winter garden develop .

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I have seen this garden have many time on to and it never fail to delight . O to have a garden large enough to include a winter garden like you my wintertime loveliness is scattered through the garden not make any form of an impact at all .

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Thanks for the tour of the endearing Anglesey Abbey garden . I express joy when I read that you have “ only an acre , ” which would be regard as a huge garden here . ( In fact , my garden , only slightly over half an Akka , is reckon as large here . ) I look onward to seeing what you do with the space you ’ve earmarked for your winter garden . I can definitely appreciate the need to come on the projection in phases . Have you got a work plant list yet ?

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What a magical situation Chloris – the birch rod plantation is stunning . I recall that Dunham Massey in Cheshire have imitate this planting but it is by no means as dramatic yet . Have fun planning and creating your new winter garden .

One tree diagram I would always include in a winter gardens is the Prunus Serrula , the bark is owing .

What a beautiful garden ! Besides the red - twigged dogwood and all the conifers , I especially sleep together the bark on that genus Prunus – gorgeous !

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I really enjoyed see this garden especially all the sprig and foliation . Cornus is a mainstay in my wintertime garden as the loss stem fall against the Charles Percy Snow . And that stall of birch trees is sensational .

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