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Magnolia Gallery
The Magnolia genus is another plant family that manages to take my breath away. You can only grow a few magnolias in Southern Finland, so I treasure the ones I have very dearly. My best magnolia is Magnolia kobus var. borealis, Magnolia ‘Leonard Messel’ does quite well and my mother has a ‘Merrill’ that shows potential. I have a ‘Raspberry Ice’ that struggles. Before I was forced to move ‘Sunsation’ and ‘Woodsman’ they were doing well, but the move killed them. I had a Magnolia sieboldii that was doing fairly well, but it was planted in a place that was too dry. A few summer’s ago the drought killed it.…
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Jardins de Bellevue
The Jardins de Bellevue are one of my absolute favorite types of gardens. The gardens are meandering and well thought out woodland gardens, which feature a lot of rare and stunning perennials, shrubs and trees. In addition to that they are set in a beautiful landscape that they make the most of. In the first picture probably a Halesia carolina. Xanthoceras sorbifolium, this might have been the first time I even heard of this tree… One of the paths Magnolia sinensis Rosa cantabrigiensis Trillium grandiflorum ‘Flore Pleno’ And so much else, I’ve just decided to stick to around 5 pictures per French garden, otherwise I would not get anything else…
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Château de Vandrimare
Seeing the park at Château de Vandrimare was very interesting, I think it was the one garden that I missed the first time I was in Normandy since for some reason I had the wrong opening times. Seeing it now with our wonderful group did not go quite perfectly either. We were shown around by the owner himself who was really knowledgeable and had collected some wonderful trees, shrubs and perennials to the garden. The problem was just the weather that did not play ball. Despite our visit being in the middle of May, it was very windy and at one point it hailed! It hailedMespilus germanica, one of many…
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Project Exhaustion
If it weren’t for the weather I would be quite excited about the new border I’m making. I’m finally going to have a large perennial border that will suit both large perennials and grasses. There will be two passageways through it so there will also be nice spots for smaller and lower plants. There will be mostly perennials, but a few woody plants so it’s not quite a modern perennial border à la Piet Oudolf, but a mixed border with some prairie touches. Absolutely no cottage garden though. “Project Exhaustion”, or perhaps it’s called “Project Fatigue” is however, what I’ve been feeling towards my massive new flower bed during the…
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Le Vasterival
Le Vasterival was the garden that I was most looking forward to seeing on our trip. It is world renown and it is one that I had not been able to visit before, as you can only visit it as part of a group. It was created by Princess Greta Sturdza and her husband Prince Georges Sturdza of Moldavia in the mid-twentieth century and Princess Greta continued to develop it until her death a few years ago.It is a spectacular collector’s garden that still manages to be very beautiful. The plants are planted in naturalistic groupings, mostly in a woodland setting. The combinations are stunning. An exquisite Acer palmatum All sorts…
