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Entrance to the Wild Garden
Springtime in the Wild Garden
The Wild Garden in Summer

Roses in the Wild Garden

Rose The Garland 1835
Rosa virginiana
Rose Dundee Rambler 1850
Rosa rubrifolia
Rose Dorothy Perkins 1901
Rose Euphrosyne 1895
Rosa arvensis Rose
Blush Rambler 1903
Rose Jersey Beauty 1899
Rose Mme d'Arblay 1835
Rose Maiden's Blush n.d.

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The Pond in the Spring

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gertrude Jekyll laid out a varied and interesting garden that gives examples of a wide spectrum of her prodigious talents. To the West of the house lies Jekyll's only surviving and faithfully restored Wild garden. It is traversed by mown grass paths which meander through longer grass, rambling roses, shrubs, bamboo and a small copse of Walnut trees. These paths lead towards the pond which is surrounded by rocks and planted with indigenous and water-loving plants.

 

 

" Planting ground is painting the landscape with living things "

Gertrude Jekyll

The Pond in Summer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plants in the Wild Garden

Wood Anemone
Lemon Balm
Bamboo metake
Bamboo simoni
Common Beech
Sweet Bergamot
Silver Birch
Common Broom
Cherry Plum cerasifera
Cherry Plum nigra
Cherry Plum PissardiiHorse Chestnut
Weeping Ash
Amelanchier
Cornflower
Cowslip
Crab Apple
Autumn Crocus
Cyclamen
Daffodil
Dogwood
FernsFoxglove
Fritillaria
Geranium
Hemerocallis
Lenten Rose
Stinking Hellebore
Lenten Hellebore
Giant Hogweed

 

Plants in the Wild Garden

Walnut
Common Yew
Goats Beard
Viburnum opulus
Field Scabious
Snowdrop
Meadowsweet
Medlar
Oxslip
Plane
Primrose
Periwinkle
Spirea
Quince
Cistus
Tansy
Holly
Stinking Iris
Yellow Iris
Knotweed
Common Laburnum
Portugese Laurel
Common Laurel
Lilac
Tree Lupin
Torch Lily