Barnsdale Gardens

We've travelled down to Cambridge today, to stay with Rachel and Philip until Tuesday (Liz is speaking at a conference, and so we've come down early for a visit). On the way, we stopped at Barnsdale Gardens, which were the work of Geoff Hamilton.

There are a number of relatively small plots, many of which are discrete gardens. One is the Artisan's Cottage Garden, which had a few interesting ideas, mostly home-made furniture.

Arbour, storage, and plant support from the Artisan's Cottage Garden (© Ian 2013)

The Reclaimed Garden had an interesting fence/archwork which we thought might be suited to the sides of the driveway/ramp.

The Reclaimed Garden (© Ian 2013)

The Parterre Garden, like several others, combined fruit, vegetables, and ornamentals rather well. We thought the Parterre was probably most successful.

Parterre Garden (© Ian 2013)

This Achillea (I think) was at the edge of the Mediterranean Garden.

Achillea (© Ian 2013)

This Bishop's Weed (Aegopodium podagraria 'Variegatum') was in the Woodland Walk: we rather liked it, so we picked one up in the nursery. (I liked this: height 10cm, spread indeterminate.)

Variegated Bishop's Weed (© Ian 2013)

This was in the Artisan's Cottage Garden, and I don't recognise it. Any ideas?

Plant from the Artisan's Cottage Garden (© Ian 2013)