Thursday 29 January 2015

Temple Newsam Walled Garden In January

I visited Temple Newsam Walled Garden back in July last year. You can read about it in my Garden Visiting In July - Part One and Garden Visiting In July - Part Two posts. I thought it would be a good idea to visit the garden in a different season to see the difference so we had a trip there last Saturday.


The Walled Garden which was once used for the cultivation of vegetables, fruit and cut flowers for the house is now a rose garden. When we visited back in July, the rose beds and flower borders were in full bloom. It's all very different in January.


We've had a mild winter up to now and many rose bushes have continued to flower giving some very late blooms, but many of the plants at Temple Newsam have been pruned and no flowers remain.


Some plants have been left to produce hips.


The garden looks very neat and tidy, but very empty at this time of year. I expected to see where the plants had died down in the borders but they've all actually been dug over. I'm not sure if anything's been left in the ground or whether whole new borders will be planted up in spring.



Only a few climbing plants remain in situ.


There wasn't much to see outside so I decided to have a look inside the conservatory. After the potting area, the first plants you come to are the pelargoniums. Such glorious colour still adorns this area even in the depths of winter.




Dogs aren't allowed inside the conservatory. Can you see Archie being a good boy and waiting outside?


Some plants are trained up columns and others up the back wall.





The next area is being used as a plant nursery. When we visited in July, this area was filled with a fabulous display of coleus, all different varieties and colours, but at the moment it's filled with seedlings and cuttings. I expect these will be the plants for the summer display.



The abutilons which were flowering in July are still flowering now. There's a good variety here.




Spanish Flag - Lantana Camara. A member of the verbena family.


There's a South African plant collection which has come from one of the gardens which Leeds entered at the Chelsea Flower Show. Some of these plants are flowering now.

Bird of paradise.


King protea.


Though there isn't much to see in the actual rose garden at this time of year, I'm sure you'll agree that the visit was worthwhile for the conservatory alone. I'd say that the garden is worth a visit at any time of year.

26 comments:

  1. I am surprised to see that the perennials have been lifted I wonder whether they are renovating and replanting. I'm sure that Archie would have been an equally good boy if allowed into the glasshouse

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    1. I was surprised to see the borders looking like this, there really doesn't look to be anything left in them so perhaps they are doing some renovating. I can't see them treating the borders in this way every year. Archie can be a little monkey sometimes so I don't mind him having to wait outside, I'm just pleased that he's allowed in the garden. We'd been to Harlow Carr in the morning and he had to stay at home so a trip to Temple Newsam in the afternoon was his reward.

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  2. What wonderful colours in the conservatory - be interesting to see what happens to the huge empty looking borders later in the year.

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    1. It's nice to see such bright colours in January. I'm sure the borders will be as impressive as last year, I'm just surprised that they're so empty at the moment.

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  3. Interesting how they've dug over all the borders. Of the gardens that I've visited in winter, the borders are mulched and the mulch 'tickled in' - i.e. no-one is allowed to step on the soil for fear of compacting it! It will be worth a return visit in the summer to see what the borders look like then. Lovely to see a splash of colour in the greenhouse and I expect it was also quite nice and warm there, too!

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    1. I think they must be renovating the borders, surely they don't take everything out every year. I think it will be interesting to visit again at the back end of the year and see what they've done with them then. I'm sure they'll be fabulous in summer, if you look at my previous post about this garden you'll see that the borders look wonderful. It's always good to visit a garden with a greenhouse in winter, it's a welcome break from the cold whilst looking around.

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  4. Amazing! So beautiful garden! I have no idea about 'the pelargonium tower'. Such a great idea,.

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    1. I think the towers are a great way to grow pelargoniums, they look very striking grown against the whitewashed wall too, it really makes their colour stand out.

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  5. A most enjoyable post and with plenty of colourful pictures. It's a place that looks well worth visiting at this time of year just for the conservatory.
    That border will take some planting up in the spring.
    Flighty xx

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    1. It's good when a place has year round interest, somewhere to go even when the weather isn't all that good. The borders are huge, I think you get a better sort of scale if you look at my previous posts as it shows them planted up, but I agree, the gardeners have got quite a task ahead of them.

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  6. Those borders are amazingly long. Just think how many plants they will need to fill them! Makes my little plot look pathetic. The conservatory was definitely worth a visit by the look of it.

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    1. They are and they're quite deep too, it will take lots of plants to fill them. Temple Newsam is a lovely place to visit at any time of year and it's nice that the walled garden still has interest year round too. The conservatory is a lovely place to spend a bit of time out of the cold.

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  7. It was certainly worth the visit just to see all those lovely blossoms in the greenhouse! I loved the Spanish Flag, gorgeous. I have dozens of pelargonium cuttings too, I haven't bought one for years......the cuttings take so easily. Gosh.....those borders will need a lot of plants!xxx

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    1. You don't usually see so many booms in the depths of winter so definitely worth a visit for that alone, it certainly perks you up to see a bit of colour. The borders were beautiful when I visited last year as you can see from my previous posts, I'm sure they'll be just as fabulous again after their makeover.

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  8. So jealous of your visit to such a gorgeous place x

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    1. We're so lucky to have Temple Newsam on our doorstep, it's a wonderful place with something for everyone, and one of Archie's favourite places for a walk.

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  9. I bet it was lovely and warm in the conservatory and so colourful. Dear Archie, what a good boy. Nella would never do that, the whole world would know she had been left. Probably stems from the fact she was abandoned in a wood and tied to a tree. Fortunately dog walkers found her.......

    I love the baron landscape.........something for each season, wonderful

    Thank you for sharing your day Jo.

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    1. The conservatory was certainly a welcome break from the cold outside, it's nice to have such a wonderful place to take a bit of shelter. Poor Nella, I didn't know she had been abandoned, it's terrible how some people treat animals but so good to know that for every heartless person in the world, there's many more at the other end of the scale. It's good to see the garden through different seasons, it's so different at the moment to how it was in my post last year.

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  10. Are you sure they pulled out everything in that border, Jo, or did they just cover it with a thick layer of compost? I guess they did pull out the plants, but that seems strange. The conservatory is lovely! P. x

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    1. I'm really not sure, though it does look dug over. It will be interesting to see if anything emerges in spring. It's nice to have so much colour to see in the conservatory at this time of year.

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  11. It is so interesting to see the garden at this time of year, when you can appreciate the shapes and structures of the borders and so on. The geraniums in the greenhouse are amazing aren't they. I have never seen any like that. Beautiful! xx

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    1. Winter is a good time to see the bare bones of a garden, they take on such a different feel when they're full of blooming plants again in summer. The geraniums here are stunning, they're trained so well and put out so many blooms.

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  12. Definitely shows the benefits of having a conservatory! The plants trained up columns are gorgeous.

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    1. It does. I think the columns are a wonderful way of showing off these blooms, they're so well trained up them.

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  13. Interesting to see what they have done. The glasshouses are a real treat. It's so lovely at this time of year to get inside into the warmth and see so much colour. Would be interesting to see what the garden looks like in summer.

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    1. You can see what the garden looked like last summer from my previous posts about Temple Newsam but I shall definitely return again this summer to see what happens to those borders.

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