Re: Chelsea Show and Europe
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- Subject: Re: Chelsea Show and Europe
- From: M* T*
- Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 22:45:14 -0500
Kiftsgate! Yes, that's it! I thought it started with a 'K'...thanks
for assisting the old mind. Oddly enough, that's exactly what
happened to us. We spent so long at Hidcote, we never got to
Kiftsgate...one of those 'oh, we'll come back' - but you never do.
Pity in a way that Sissinghurst is so crowded, it's not the kind of
garden that you really want 8000 other folks breathing down your neck
in...much too intimate, IMO. Guess I was lucky to see it so many
years ago, when this wasn't a problem.
Think opening a hotel for garden tours sounds quite a nice idea:-)
The 'Hot Borders' at Great Dixter happened after I was there,
also...but, from what I've read, they have caused a certain amount of
controversy, being so tropical and outrageous in colors. Lloyd
always did have a way with odd color combos that I'd never use in a
million years, but that work very well in his capable hands.
Except for the time I went to Chelsea, all visits to the UK have
happened in September and been blessed with lovely weather and
gardens with a surprising amount going on in them for so late in the
season....UK gardens foster garden envy on a massive scale; always
want to come home and tear everything out and start over from
scratch.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Valerie-Anne Mullett <valerie-anne@lineone.net>
> Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 2:32 PM
>
> Hello Marge,
>
> Kiftsgate Court is the name of the garden near Hidcote Manor -
unfortunately
> we spent so long at Hidcote that did not have time to visit it.
If I
> remember rightly, we were told that it was on a very steep
hillside* and
> quite magnificent.
>
> Sissinghurst was absolutely jammed packed when we visited and I
believe they
> now only let a certain amount of people in so not sure whether one
has to
> book*.
>
> (*I hope the above is correct: I have senior moments too).
>
> Great Dixter is fabulous especially in August/September when his
flamboyant
> hot borders come to life. (Outrageous to some but an absolutely
beautiful
> sight to me.)
>
> [Perhaps I should open an hotel and run garden tours for the
perennials
> list - any backers out there? :).]
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