Hodnet Hall

[charlie]

If you ever find yourself north of Telford there are 2 or 3 gardens worth a look see.

This was our last long distance outing for the year and we arrived early so we could set up in peace on Friday afternoon

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Once set up the weather was not too bad so we had a wander having the garden to ourselves

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was quite taken with the Angelica it was well over my height

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The Rodgesia are apparently "nothing special" their enormous size being good soil and water!

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I am not a huge fan of Peony (mainly cos they wont grow for me!) but I have to say the scent was pretty special

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Some lovely wild flower meadows

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It pays to look carefully at them as there is all sorts going on

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A series of lakes down the garden gives plenty of scope for wet planting areas

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[AndyC]

What a lovely garden, you were lucky to have it to yourselves.

What is the plant in the last picture?

[charlie]

What a lovely garden, you were lucky to have it to yourselves.

What is the plant in the last picture?

Not 100% but my brain went to Cardiocrinum giganteum, you can raise them from seed but you need to do it each year as seedlings take up to 7 years to flower then I believe they die! The idea being to always have a batch ready to flower each year. I thought the foliage spike was rather interesting, not sure I have ever seen so many in one garden

[charlie]

By the way the tree behind our van in the first picture is a cornus, the garden is full of trees and shrubs with the space to get to their full size and potential

[kGarden]

Cardiocrinum giganteum, you can raise them from seed but you need to do it each year as seedlings take up to 7 years to flower then I believe they die!

Monocarpic, as you say, but they produce offsets after flowering which maybe? mature more quickly than seedlings

I had good intent to do the "every year" thing, but got out of the habit. I started with some large bulbs to give me a flying start (I suppose you don't want too big, so they take more than "same year" to flower, otherwise I doubt they will be very dramatic). Slugs love the emerging foliage ...

The bulbs I bought came from Anglia Bulbs, and they were massive :)

https://www.angliabulbs.com/product/car ... giganteum/

[charlie]

I have no idea if its true (because I have never grown them ) but was told offsets are never as big and imposing as the seed grown plants

[kGarden]

I have no idea if its true (because I have never grown them ) but was told offsets are never as big and imposing as the seed grown plants

Interesting Charlie, thanks. The flowers produce unbelievable quantities of seed, so apart from possibly longer sow-to-bloom tome than offset-to-bloom there is unlikely to be any shortage of seedlings :)