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Symondsbury, Bridport

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If only every visitor came to the nursery so perfectly dressed to set off the flowers of the season, like these two Itohs peonies . . . #peony #peonyflower #symondsburyestate #dorsetplantsman #dorset #rareplants
Carpenteria californica Ladham’s variety, such clean white flowers but loses out on scent when it has to compete with Philadelphus... nevertheless a great shrub, evergreen for sunny spot ... . . . #carpenteriacalifornica #rareshrubs #rareplants
Dark red Martagon Lily .... Worth the effort of plucking off lily beetles which manage to find even the most isolated lily for miles around.... how do they do it? . . . #lilies #martagonlily #martagonlilyclaudeshride #rareplants #symondsburyestate #l
The best of the lot ! Peony New Millenium, settling down after 3 years ... fades beautifully, handsome shrub like one metre high and wide... very scarce as yet probs due to high amount of tree peony blood that makes it slow to bulk up.... . . . #peon
Peony Smith Family Yellow .... pure sunshine and fades beautifully on a large shrub like mound of pointy leaves...after 3 years it is settling down and has produced over 20 blooms this year.... . . . #itohpeony #peonyseason #rareplants #symondsburyes
Peonies galore, yum yum . . . #peonies #peoniesaremyfavorite #symondsburyestate #dorset
Peony Love Affair, one of the very few white Itoh peonies (also called intersectional which sounds far too much like key hole surgery...) Itoh was a Japanese American who was the first to make the cross between tree peonies and herbaceous peonies. Th
Peony Callies Memory... an itoh of many shades, no two blooms are the same as they fade from strong peach to cream and everything in between, making her difficult to place . . . #itohpeony #peonies #peonyflower #rareplants #dorset #symondsburyestate
Cornus florida var. urbiana. Sold to me as Cloud Nine but produced these extraordinary lampshade style flowers... . . . #cornusflorida #cornusfloridaurbiniana #rareplants #unusualshrubs #symondsbury #dorset
Peony Lafayette Escadrille (itoh type) named after an American military unit of volunteers fighting for France in First World War ...first time it has flowered decently for me. Itohs take some time to settle into their true selves, like so many of us
Tree Peony Boreas .. . . . #treepeony
Intimate shot of Tree Peony Boreas, (god of the northern wind) in our lockdown garden... . . . #treepeony #treepeonies #peonysuffruticosa #stamens #symondsburyestate #dorsetlife
Peony Nosegay.. one of the earliest in our nursery garden... great foliage too . . . #peonies #peoniesaremyfavorite #rareplants #dorset #symondsburylife #symondsbury
Scented Geranium Pink Capricorn... every year I like to have a new group of plants to obsess over and observe... I chose five from Fibrex nurseries and so far this one is top of the pile flowerwise.... . . . #scentedgeranium @fibrex_nurseries #pelarg
I’m on a blueberry mission. They are simply beautiful plants in all respects. Flower , fruit and autumn colour . Brilliant in pots... We have a small allee of them at home so they will be easier to net from hungry blackbirds... in flower they a
Malus brevipes Wedding Bouquet, smothered in small white blossom, incredibly profuse in flower and fruit....nice and early for a crab apple. . . . #crabapple #fruittrees #appleblossoms #dorset #symondsburyestate