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The Garden House (Devon, England)

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The Garden House (Devon, England)

The destinations are beginning to blur but looking at the tour guide booklet, I see that we are now in Plymouth. Today, we visited two gardens designed by Keith Wiley. 
The first is The Garden House, where Wiley worked as Head Gardener for 25 years (from 1978-2003). The 10-acre estate was purchased in the 1940s by former Eton schoolmaster Lionel Fortescue and his wife Katherine. It was formerly home to the  vicars of Buckland Monachronum. The Fortescue’s renovated the gardens and ran a market garden business and raised cattle. 
The remains of some of the original buildings in the vicarage still stand in the garden and serve as a romantic backdrop in the Walled Garden –
I loved the way they had massed ferns together. Just stunning!
Surrounding the walled garden and venturing out away from the house are more naturalistic plantings  –
Today, the head gardener is Nick Haworth, who was previously head gardener at Greenway, which we visited earlier. 
Keith Wiley left in 2003 and moved just down the road where he created a new garden and nursery called Wildside. It was our next stop…
(Visited May 13, 2005)

Text and photos by Phillip Oliver, Dirt Therapy

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looking for a rare seed

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looking for a rare seed

Hello, I am trying to find seeds for an heirloom variety of pea called Strategem peas. i am needing them for a era-specific garden project im working on. They are from England way back. The only place i can find them for sale in Prairie Garden Seeds in Canada, but they won’t ship to usa anymore due to …reasons…im wondering if anyone here could help me find a source to get these seeds? thanks in advance

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