Thornbridge Hall Gardens

[Tel]

I thought you had left us in mid garden, Bists. ;D

What a great job you and your fellow gardeners have doing on that project.

[wildlifefriendly]

Great to see you back Bists. What a difference, it looks stunning, it is a shame I cant smell it.

The box balls look wonderful, the whole garden looks wonderful, it it as you hopped it would be? I'd be so proud if I had achieved that standard but I would be interested to hear the verdict from the creator.

Image two and three didn't work because of a missing character so I have popped them in here.





Is that a chamomile seat in one of your photos? Does it take much maintenance?

[Rosie]

Hello Bists, lovely to see you back, the gardens are looking beautiful, i love the lay out of the scented garden, looks so much work but it's been worth it ;D

[peony]

Beautiful pictures Bists, the gardens are looking lovely now ;D Welcome back too, I really enjoy your thread.

[bists]

Thanks WF for adding my photos - a blond moment again!!!

As of yet the Chamomile seat takes hardly any maintenance at all. I planted it very heavily with about 145 9cm pots of Chamomile Treneague, so that the weeds haven't had chance to fight their way through the planting.

As for how pleased I am with it....i'll be more interested to see it come up again next year, as I do tend to find that a new garden on such a large scale always looks slightly 'plonked'. I'm also annoyed with my bulb supplier who swore on pain on death that the bulbs would be the actual colour I'd ordered. They should have been dark burgundy/purple.....not pillar box red!!! However, (moaning apart!!!!) it is lovely to see another section of the gardens completed, and I'm really pleased with the Rose Arches, and also the Roses that we purchased from David Austin. There are still lots more plants to be planted in Autumn......and we're also about to start work on the next major rejig in the garden - a secret garden surrounding the soon to be working, formal pond and fountain.

[wildlifefriendly]

Please post more photos as you go Bists. Large gardens, like yours, always look like they have been there forever, it is interesting to know they haven't and to see the amount of work which goes into them.

[bists]

Another busy week in the garden again. Now preparing for the NGS on the 21st August. I've finally managed to weed all of the new scented terrace, and can concentrate again on the the potager, and also on maintaining all of the sale plants that I have produced...there's a vast amount of them this year:

Agastache Blue Liquorice, Agastache Raspberry Daquiri, Canna Tropical Mix, Corydalis unicorn, Cyperus Papyrus, Dahlia Babylon Gevland, Dahlia Bishop of Llandaff, Dahlia Black Narcissus, Dahlia Blue Bayou, Dahlia Giraffe, Dahlia Honka Surprise, Dahlia Le Castel, Dahlia Mingus Gregory, Dahlia Phantom, Dahlia Pink Giraffe, Dahlia Purple Puff, Delphinium, Francoa,
Fuchsia 2L Assorted, Fuchsia Genii, Fuchsia Tom West, Gaura Belleze, Grapevine Crimson Seedless, Heuchera Mixed, Ipomea Indica, Kniphofia Traffic Lights, Lobelia fan blue, Lupin White, Lychnis Rose Campion, Lysimachia Gold, Lythrum x Robert, Mathiola arborescens Alba, Melianthus Major, Pennisetum, Physallis, Physostegia, Polemonium Alba, Salvia involucrata Mulberry Jam, Sambucus Sutherland Gold, Scabious fama blue, Scabious fama White, Scabiuos Beaujolais Bonnets, Sedum Spectabile, Sidalcea Rosaly, Stipa Capillata, Stipa Tenuissima, Strawberry, Wallflower - variagated. And we've also managed to produce a large quantity of scented leaved pelargoniums. Busy, busy, busy making sure that they are flowering ( where possible ) Wish us good weather in Derbyshire for next Sunday!!

[Cherry]

I certainly do wish for good weather for you Bists and your selection of sale plants is brilliant.

[esther]

Good Luck with your Open Day bists - I hope you get lots of visitors who spend lots of money ;D

[wildlifefriendly]

Good luck for your open day. I know how much work I had to put in for mine so the amount of work you will have to put in must be phenomenal.

Wonderful list of plants for sale too.

[Tel]

Hope you have a very successful open day after all the work the team has done.
A lot of plants for sale too, along with a good selection of dahlias.

[Lou78W]

You will have a wonderfully successful day Bists...will keep fingers crossed the weather is fine for you. A list of plants good enough to eat!! ;D

[grindle]

good luck for your open day Bists, you deserve a very successful day

[bists]

Well we had an amazingly successful day for the NGS last sunday. We opened at 10am, and had queues at the gate all day long. In fact, it always makes me smile, as the most determined of gardeners arrived at about 930am, and made a bee line for the plant section. As normal, we have a plant creche, so they all purchased lots, and then went for a coffee and a slice of cake before looking around the grounds!!!!

The weather was fantastic, and everyone had a really great time. We ended up raising, what is a record for a sunday opening in Derbyshire, £8500!!!! No pressure for next year then!!

This week, we've been able to take it a little easier, and have been reshaping some of the Yew trees, that line the outside of the veg terrace.



The dog in the pic, is my lovable, but crazy, beagle, called Barney....if sticks were rabbits, we'd have no problem with chewed plants....he will chase rabbits, but trying to get him back...

[esther]

Wow! That is a fantastic amount bists ;D I am really pleased the day went well ;D
All being well we are opening our garden for the NGS next summer ;D