English Country Gardens

[kiwisue]

Because my knowledge and abilities in this area are more along the lines of "how to" kill off pot plants...

It's late October, by the sea (south coast), a small cottage garden, a bit wild. The weather's been wet but not too cold.

What might be in the garden? Anything still flowering? Smells?

Edit Not so useful for my immediate purpose, but a fabulous description all the same:
http://www.gardenvisit.com/t/bacon.htm

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[tboy.livejournal.com]

I googled fairly randomly, and got this result

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=devon+gardens+october&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Hope there's some helpful ones in there *g*.

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

The Holbrook one is interesting. Need to translate some of the names -
Salvia uliginosa is bog sage, origin South America
Rudbeckia - Black-eyed Susan - North American
Vitis coignetae - can't find a common name - it's a creeper
Aster (yay, a name I recognise!)

But I don't know if these are common plants - they might be if brought to England during the age of exploration. I don't need to catalogue them, just need a descriptive impression of the garden (as it's for a B/D story, I don't think either of them is going to worry too much about the botanical side of things). I could use the Eltham pics again, I suppose, but I wanted something on a much smaller scale.

Anyway *g* thanks for the links.

[caffyolay.livejournal.com]

Dahlias, crysanths, a few roses, probably marigolds (mine lasted into Nov.), nereens (a pink autumn bulb, not sure if that's the right spelling), penstemmons. It's mild by the sea so probably the fucshias would still be in flower. You might want to stress that these are the remnants of the summer garden because it's quite well into autumn here in Oct. but quite honestly if there's been no frost then there will still be flowers. Not that many but they'll be there. Hope that helps. Give me a shout if you need more help.

[kiwisue.livejournal.com]

WooHoo! I was hoping you'd see this - thank you so much!

And some of those even Bodie ought to recognise *g*

You're a big help.

[caffyolay.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of assistance. Yell if you need to ask anything else.