Not the Hexenhäusli Device Gardens IV*

Agave montana flower head

 In the comments of my latest Four Photos post, I said to Jon that I might put up some photos from a recent visit to The Old Vicarage Gardens in East Ruston - and here they are!

 

* III can be found here. 

 

 We shall try to identify the various plants featured here, but The Host couldn't be bothered to stoop down and find the labels and photograph them while at the gardens, despite my nagging urging, so The Official Plant Spotter of Hexenhäusli Device and its Extensive Witchdom - AKA Jon - may have his work cut out.

 I was with a friend!  I had gossiping and laughing to do, not to mention trying to keep Witchface under wraps, so grubbing around in the undergrowth was low on my list of priorities! 

 

 Anyway, before we set off, Alison Goldfrapp has kindly offered to provide a musical accompaniment with her latest release, Sound & Light: 

I think these may be the flowers of Dianella caerulea?

(The plants I grew from seeds liberated from TOVG back in 2019 haven't flowered yet.  They're not doing very well where they are - and get trampled quite a lot by Bitey - so I will probably have to move them.)

 

 

Some sort of cow parsley/angelica thingy.

 

 

A Euphorbia of some description.  Possibly an Esula-type subgenus?

 

 

Bearded iris

 

 

Iris sanguinea

 

 

Peonies

 

 

South entrance to the Mediterranean Garden

 

 

View to the Desert Wash

 

 

Poppies!

 

 

Desert Wash featuring the massive flower spike of Agave montana

 

 

Still too early in the season for the Exotic Garden to really look the part.

 

 

Exotic Garden as seen from the pergola.

 

 

The Sunk Garden (that's the Exotic Garden pergola in the background)

 

 

Clematis somethingorother

 

 

 

Stunning Aquilegias above and below

 

A beautiful pink Acer

 

 

I liked these blue (or purple - colourblind, remember) flowers in the Glasshouse Garden

 

 

I don't know what this is?

 

 

Or this?  But it seemed to me that the flowers were upside down.

 

 

No idea.

 

 

I used to know what this is.  I had some in the Gardener's Retreat but I think it got swamped by hostas and lords-and-ladies?  I want to say toadwort, but I don't think that's right.

 

 

Then suddenly it was time to go, so we made our way back to the car to be chauffeured home.