A walk in the gardens December 2006




This will be my last monthly report for 2006 and what a month it has been: Wind, rain and more wind and more rain!!

Christmas day was such a dreary day that I didn’t take any photos. The one photo I did take in December was a week earlier on the 17th of Anoptera glandulosa. This plant was on the path parallel to the main road between the green drive and the green walk though there is another plant in Colin’s garden.

The reason for going to the gardens on Christmas day, apart from walking off Christmas lunch, was to make a count of plants flowering. I didn’t make a complete survey but I covered a fair bit of the gardens so here is the list.

East mound
Olearia semi-dentata, Viburnum bodnantense ‘Dawn’, Skimmia japonica
Top Drive
Fuchsia ‘Mrs Popple’
Walled walk
Camellia (Cornish Snow?), Atherosperma moschata
Walled garden north
Primroses, Calceolaria integrifolia, Heathers, Lapageria rosea, Fuchsia Pixie
Salvia gesnerifolia
Fuchsia splendens, Schizostylis ‘Mrs Hegarty’, Schizostylis coccinea, Clianthus puniceus, Campanula, Geranium (back of top border)
Mahonia Charity, Euchryphia intermedia Rostrevor, Euryops pectinatus
Other Fuchsias, various Roses
Argyranthemum Jamaican Primrose
South walled garden
Fuchsias, Viburnum bodnantense Dawn, Hypericum Rowallane
Clianthus puniceus albus, Rhododendron sp. (white), Sarcococca hookeriana
Hugh’s border
Brugsmania sanguinea (Datura)
Spring bank
Fuchsia cordifolia, Campion
Garage area
Helleborus atrorubens
Pond
Aponogeton distachyos (Water Hawthorn)
Green drive
Rh. Christmas Cheer
Old garden
Mahonia

Anoptera glandulosa