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CHS TOUR 2022 to SOMERSET

In Association with Heritage Touring 
5 — 8 September 2022

3 nights at the Castle Hotel, Taunton

Heritage Tours have planned a selection of garden visits, from contemporary, through  historically significant, to stunning private gardens.  The Castle Hotel in Taunton is a 4 star family-owned hotel set in an historic building, which was the old Norman fortress, in the heart of town with excellent accommodation and a good restaurant.

We plan to visit the following gardens: Llanover, The Bishops Palace Garden at Wells Cathedral, Kilver Court pictured above, Batcombe House, Yews Farm, The Newt, Wyndcliffe Court Gardens, and Highfield Farm. 

Download, View or Print a Garden Details and Booking Instructions here: CHS_Somerset_Details.
A Heritage Touring  booking form is here: 2022_Heritage_Touring_Booking Form

 

MEMBERS’ PLANTS FROM PAST TOURS

Kay Edwards
I visited Le Jardin Agapanthe in Grigneuseville, Normandy in September 2018, with a group of CHS members. These agapanthus ‘Northern Star’, growing happily now in West Wales, remind me of that fascinating garden.

Barb White
Surprise Tiger lilies from scratch.
Thought I’d send you the results of the bulblets that were given to us and many members by Jean Louis Dantec of L’Etang De Launay on our Normandy trip with the CHS in 2018. Did anyone else plant theirs? Tiger lilly, I think.
Philip Ellis reports that none came up from his batch: Barbara is lucky/greener-fingered!

Judith Bray 
Guernsey Lilies?
I photographed these on our trip to Guernsey in Autumn 2004, assuming that they were Guernsey Lilies (Nerine sarniensis). However when I checked in my RHS Encyclopedia, they were the wrong colour and more likely to be Nerine bowdenii ‘Pink’. Oh well, what’s in a name – they were very pretty anyway.

Kay Edwards: Coreopsis ‘Full Moon’
Le Jardin Plume Normandy 2018
I was captivated by Coreopsis ‘Full Moon’ in Le Jardin Plume when the CHS visited Normandy in September 2018. It was flowering profusely all along the base of a dark wooden barn and I bought three plants from their nursery. I hope, in time, to create a similar effect here at home.

Kay Edwards
Rose in Memory of John Corfield.
During our CHS visit to Milntown, Isle of Man, John and I came across a fragrant rose we did not recognise, in the sheltered walled garden, still in full bloom in September. A gardener identified it as ‘Wild Edric’ a David Austin rose, named after a Shropshire Lord. I told John I would grow one… and here it is, flowering for the first time on my exposed Welsh hillside.

We are looking for plants from our past tours to fill this empty pot. They may have been a generous handful of distributed propagating material like Barbara’s lily bulblets, purchased from a special garden – or sourced after the bus has gone wild with excitement after spotting something new.

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