Plant and Craft Fair at Leeds Castle
We had invited Patrick and Eileen to spend a couple of days with us. Patri, a relative from Hungary, was also staying with us for a week. Because Patrick is a plantsman we decided to visit the Plant and Craft Fair at Leeds Castle, where the biggest treat was a guided tour around the Culpepper and Lady Baillie gardens by the head gardener, Julian. We were the only ones to turn up at the meeting point and so had a private guided tour. After looking around the plant stalls we decided to leave the castle and visit another garden.
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The garden tour: Culpepper Garden
Culpepper Garden showing some of the many different roses
Culpepper Garden with the box hedges separating the pathways
Alliums
Culpepper Garden: view to the fields on the other side of the Great Water
A rose
Culpepper Garden – Julia's Rose
Julian, the head gardener, talks about the planting.
Ornamental poppies
A bee on an allium
The Great Water from the Lady Baillie Garden
The Great Water from the Lady Baillie Garden
A gravel herb garden
Pineapple broom (cytisus battandieri)
Rock garden in the Lady Baillie Garden
The group admires the rock garden.
Time for a coffee or beer
Ann was there too.