Eggleston Hall Gardens Videos
Showing all videos from June, 2013 
Flowering Cornus (Dogwoods); Four of the Best
A selection of Flowering Cornus growing at Plantsmans Corner; Madame Butterfly, Satomi, Milky Way, and Wolf Eyes are all worth a place in the garden and...
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Kolkwitzia amabilis; The Beauty Bush
Said to have Foxglove like flowers, but I can't see it myself. Never mind, it's still beautiful to say the least. Pruning is best after...
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High Hill Top
High Hill Top is the highest garden in the NGS yellow book. for the many American viewers that watch these videos, the "Yellow Book" is...
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Oriental Poppy 'Beauty of Livermere'
Papaver orientale "Beauty of Livermere" is a striking poppy, hot, brazen, and a luscious bordello red in colour. Like most of its type the only...
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Celmisia spectabilis 'Eggleston Silver'
As a tribute to Gordon Long I keep this plant at Plantsmans Corner, though at Eggleston Hall Gardens we still have plenty of stock. I...
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Wedding Cake Tree Identification
Common names can be something of a nightmare for nurserymen...people often give you such a name then get all snotty when you don't recognise it..."my...
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Gardeners World; why I stopped watching.
I wish the BBC would take note. Feel free to forward this to them as I stand by everything said and written....though others may take...
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The Buttercup Meadows of Teesdale
An evening stroll through the buttercup meadows of Barningham, and while I will always have a hankering for the South Downs of West Sussex, the...
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Wallington; A Fine Walled Garden
Wallington Hall is a fine old country house, seat of a branch of the Trevallyan family whose notorious attitude (Charles Edward) to the Irish has...
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Paris quadrifolia
A look at a lovely little woodland plant as recommended by Roy Long...It's growing on me a little this year.
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Paeonia mlokosewitschii (Molly the Witch)
A pretty enough Paeony, but as with Claire de Lune, in my opinion totally over-hyped. Yes its attractive.....To quote the late Christopher Lloyd "for about 4...
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Acer shirasawanum Aureum
A beautiful maple from Japan. I love this plant, and once it adapts to your garden it will be a talking point and delight for...
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Ranunculus aconitifolius flora-plena
A lovely plant for sun or part shade...even almost full shade. This video does not do justice to the individual flowers, they are highly decorative...
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Euphorbias polychroma and palustris
A look at two fine Euphorbia species. Similar flowers, similar timings, just different heights and habit. Plus a warning of the dangers of Euphorbia sap...
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