Another Herefordshire Visit - Part 1: Burford House Gardens

 

We managed to get away again to Herefordshire last week for four nights.  We arrived on Wednesday and Thursday decided to revisit Burford House Gardens as we hadn't been since toward the end of June when we also visited Ledwyche Meadow next to the gardens.

Again, it was very quiet and peaceful there and we didn't see any other visitors just a volunteer or two gardening.

George the Dragon is for sale at a reduced price because he has a cracked wing! A bargain if you have £2499.99 to spare!

Wild Arum or Lords and Ladies or Jack in the Pulpit berries. This plant has some wonderful names.

 

The roses are still looking beautiful.

Burford House has a large selection of different varieties of clematis throughout the gardens.

Michaelmas Daisies - we still have the purple variety in the garden at home although we lost the plants with deep pink and white flowers.

B was lucky enough to see a Kingfisher flying down the river. I missed it, of course, dawdling to take photos!  In past summers we have wonderful views of this species here.

Timothy happy to be out and about again :)

We bought icecreams in the Garden Centre tea room and then had a look round the nurseries as there was a plant sale on.  I finally managed to buy some house leeks (photo in the next post) and B spotted a Red Hot Poker which he bought.  The one I purchased from Stockton Bury Gardens was a Yellow Hot Poker and he  wanted a red one as well.

We stopped off briefly in Tenbury Wells to buy petrol and get a few items from Tesco.

All photos taken by me with the Panasonic Lumix FZ330 bridge camera. (I don't particularly rate my photos but if anyone wishes to use one of mine or my son's I would be grateful for an email first - thanks.

May Visit to Herefordshire - Part 3: Burford House Gardens

 

On the Thursday we popped into Tenbury Wells and then onto Burford House Garden Centre as B was searching for Red Hot Poker plants for the border at the caravan. Sadly, we couldn't find any.

As we were there we had a look around the gardens at Burford House - they had changed a lot in a month with many different species now flowering.

The pollinator bed was full of Green Alkanet.

We walked over the bridge to Ledwyche Meadow - we didn't walk all around the meadow as I think it will look at its best in a few weeks time. There was lots of Red Campion in flower.

We loved this plant - it was flowering all round the gardens too.  I think it may be Sicilian Honey Garlic - a type of allium?

This wonderful tree is a Metasequoia glyptostroboides  or Redwood Dawn  This variety of tree is known from fossil records and was growing over 50 million years ago but was only re-discovered in 1947 growing in China.

The River Teme - still no Kingfishers

This Judas Tree was a picture.  Judas Trees flower in Spring before the leaves appear.  There is a story that the flowers were originally white and they became pink when stained with the blood of Judas when he took his own life.

Horse Chestnut candles

That allium again!

The wisteria is still flowering although I think we have missed it at its best.

Mallard ducklings on the pool in front of the house.

One of the things I love about this garden is that it is never busy. Usually all you see is a few volunteers gardening so it is very peaceful and relaxing to walk round.

On the Friday we were meeting friends for lunch in Broadwas and I persuaded B to go half an hour early so I could have a quick look around the church there. I'll write about that in the next post - there was a wonderful selection of medieval tiles :)

All photos taken by me with the Panasonic Lumix FZ330 bridge camera. (I don't particularly rate my photos but if anyone wishes to use one of mine or my son's I would appreciate an email first - thanks)