St. John's Cottages: Gardens & Plants
DOWN THE DRIVE EDGING THE VEGETABLE BEDS:
Mixed borders including roses: Constance Spry, New English roses Glamis Castle (white), Jayne Austin (yellow), Country Living (pink),L D Braithwaite (red), The Fairy, pink, white and red old roses, some of which predate our purchase of the cottages; pink gypsophilla, delphinium, lavender, rue, michaelmas daisies, poppies, red and white lychnis, sweet William, campanula pyramidalis and persifolica, hollyhock, asphodel, anchusa, larkspur, alchemilla, hydrangea, eryngium, iris, geraniums, achillea "The Pearl", phlox, senecio.
UNDER THE PINK MAY TREE:
Cornus mas, viburnum juddii, lonicera nitidus, variegated euonymus, choisya, skimmia, lilac, self-sown gooseberry, ancient pink rose with scented foliage - predates us - and spring bulbs.
IN THE VEGETABLE GARDEN:
Fruit: standard black & red currants, thornless blackberries - nerines grow underneath - alpine, Mara des Bois, and Alexandria strawberries, Autumn Bliss, yellow and Mailing Jewel raspberries. 4 standard dwarf Bramleys round centre bed, single espaliers of Blenheim Orange, Worcester Pearmain, Egremont Russet and Jupiter standards, standard Portugal laurel, Regal Lilies.
VEGETABLES:
Savoy, red and white cabbage, seakale, leeks, onions, carrots, radishes, French bean "Safari", blettes, globe artichokes , courgettes, Brussels sprouts, petits pois and mangetout, lettuces Fortune, oak-leaved white and red, sangria, etc., tomatoes Inca, Marmande, Cherry Belle, Golden Sunrise.
UNDER TWO OLD APPLE TREES AND IN BORDER BY FLINT WALL:
Lavender hedge, blackcurrants, gooseberries, symphoricarpus, exochorda, witch hazel, peonies, sorbus cashmeriana, 2 large rosa mundi,
ceratostigma, philadel-phus, cotoneaster.
IN FRONT OF THE COTTAGES:
Roses: Iceberg, red Nosegay, pirapinellifolia, white rugosa, lavender hedge, santolina.
THE FORMAL HERB GARDEN:
22 clipped box cylinders; circle of pink and white lavender around family apple tree, thyme beds edged with dwarf lavender with a central myrtle; marjoram and golden marjoram, asparagus, tree onion, vervain, chives, sweet Cicely, common, red and variegated sage, lovage, wormwood, curry plant, elecampane, lungwort, heartsease, foxglove, comfrey, savory, tansy, borage, camphor, tarragon, love-in-a-mist, sorrel, rue, Good King Henry, columbine, variegated rue, hyssop, southernwood.
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