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AVENUE OF 22 CLIPPED BAYS, 2 STANDARD VARIEGATED HOLLIES AND 35 ICEBERG ROSES:
Spring bulbs, giant and small catmint, alcheroilla, rosemary, rose Golden Showers, creeping campanula, lychnis, morello and Stella cherries, pears William and Conference, alpine strawberries under the fruit trees, which have circles of snow-in-summer round them, valerian, feverfew, santolina, old fuchsias which were next to the church hall and survived its demolition.

NORTH OF THE STUDIO:
Hellebores, hops, rose rubrifolia, white rugosa, honeysuckle (wild seed brought from La Roque Alric), viburnum.

BY THE SWIMMING POOL BUILDING:
New York Muscat grapes, Japanese anemone, ivy; nectar ines, agapanthus, standard roses and hibiscus in pots, Trees: Apricot, Early River, Czar plum

WEST OF POOL:
FIRST BED:
Olive trees from Avignon mixed border including campanula burghaltii, persifolica, lacti-astrantia flora, phlox,
SECOND BED: Standard Sweet Morello Cherry, 4 box pyramids, garlic chives, parsley, sweet pea pyramids, dill, vegetables.
THIRD BED: Standard may tree, 4 box pyramids, spring bulbs, cowslips, anchusa, white verbascum, edged with alpine strawberries.
FOURTH BED: Edge of box, central variegated box circle, standard bay tree, In bed to the south: monks’ hood, phlox, hydrangea paniculata, medlar, larkspur, various thalictvums, poppies.

GREENHOUSE, COLD FRAME, TREE AND PLANT
NURSERY:
Auriculas in pots

NABOTH'S VINEYARD - THE WILD GARDEN:
All British native wild flowers: primroses, cowslips and fritillaries; cornfield annuals and perennials. Vines including New York Muscat, damson, 3 Victoria plums, blackberry quince, Golden Hornet crabapple, 3 pears including Katy, silver birch and cypresses, white jasmine on summerhouse with vines, apples including russets, Discovery, Golden Delicious, Cox, White Wistaria.

THE ORIGINAL GARDEN OF 6 MOAT SOLE:
On the walls: roses Handel, Swan Lake, Blue Wistaria, Wintersweet, everlasting sweet pea, winter and yellow summer jasmine, clematis armandii, orientalis and montana pink, honeysuckle, wistaria; dark red magnolia, love-in-a-mist, arteraisia abrotanura, monkshood, creeping blue campanula, perennial cornflower, cosmea, tobacco, sweet William, larkspur, peony, delphinium, Michaelmas daisies, New English roses Brother Cadfael and Kathryn Morley, campanula, sedura. In pots: oak tree(1956), many clipped box standards and columns, standard clipped hawthorns and cotoneasters, ivy, santolina and seasonal plants in pots and pottery baskets.

BY THE GARAGE:
Vine Seyve-Villard planted 1983 clematis, Nellie Moser; wrought iron flowers.

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