Yorkshire Cottage: RHS Tatton Park 2016

Sunday, 24 July 2016

RHS Tatton Park 2016

Today was our fifth year going to RHS Tatton Park, and it's been an excellent day. I actually went yesterday, too, with my mum, and we had a brilliant day. It meant I'd scouted ahead, effectively, for Liz and my visit, which was quite helpful in many ways.

We may, just possibly, have gone mad on the plant buying.

How to cram a lot of plants into a Corsa (both © Ian 2016)

We came home with a lot of plants. 92 of them, in fact.

For the herb garden:

2 Germander 'Summer Sunshine
3 Black physic root (Veronicastrum)
3 Winter savory
Chilean guava
2 Calamint
Banana mint
Gold-tipped marjoram
Creeping white thyme
Chocolate peppermint
4 Oregano 'Country Cream'
2 Hedge germander
2 Betony
Meadowsweet
3 Ornamental oregano 'Hopley's Variety'

For the colour wheel:

Yellows:

2 Inula hookeri
Helenium 'Waltraut'

Reds:

3 Rudbeckia 'Cherokee Sunset'
4 Helenium 'Moerheim Beauty'
3 Potentilla 'Monsieur Rouillard'
3 Coreopsis 'Mercury Rising'
3 Campanula punctata 'Alba flora'

Blues/Purples:

Campanula rotundifolia 'Harebell'
3 Verbena rigida
Russian sage
5 Scabious 'Blue Note'
5 Caryopteris 'White Surprise'
Euphorbium 'Ascot Rainbow'

Whites:

3 Aralia cordata 'Sun King'
3 Fatsia japonica 'Spider's Web'
Lychnis flos-cucula (Ragged Robin) 'White Robin'

For the long border:

4 Scabious 'Barocca'
3 Geranium wallichianum 'Havana Blues'
3 Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'

For the pond garden:

Gunnera magellanica

For the quince bed:

Heuchera 'Cinnabar Silver'
Heuchera 'Grape Soda'
Tiarella 'Pink Sky Rocket'

There were also four climbers, to go on some trellising (next to the driveway, and next to the greenhouse): two winter jasmines (Jasminum nudiflorum) and two evergreen clematis (C. armandii and named variety 'Appleblossom').

Some other photos from the show: