Day Out Highlights of a two hour walk from my front door

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Nice65

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Apr 16, 2009
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A grand walk. What a place! I love the shell folly, and wouldn’t that old farmhouse with its bell house make a lovely dwelling for someone with the money to bring it back? Not that it doesn’t look wonderful in its present state, but they don’t build them like that anymore.

Do you know any more about that Holly? I’ve seen cultivars without prickly leaves, but usually in planned gardens, and not with the red bark. It may be a rarity. Many of our variegated, split leafed, curly leafed, twisted stemmed shrubs and trees have simply been chanced upon and cuttings taken, or crossed with other species of the same genus. The Victorians brought and made us many of these, but many happened because someone took notice and took a cutting or showed it to someone who did. I happened upon a website a while ago asking for people to report any they find, and I didn’t save it to my notes.
 

punkrockcaveman

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Jan 28, 2017
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yorks
lovely John! Do you know anything about the white foxgloves? Are they a recessive natural kind of thing or are they escapees?
 

John Fenna

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Oct 7, 2006
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It is in the grounds of a minor local mansion - between the " big house" and the home farm. It was a pass time for the ladies of the house ... anyone would think they had been in lockdown! :)
This is all in North Pembrokeshire - about 8 miles from the coast - just outside Pembs coast Nat Park.
 

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