Wildgoose Garden and Nursery is one of our favourite destination within easy reach of home. Jack and Laura run the nursery and walled garden as well as presenting talks to garden groups and hold courses for the RHS at the garden. Our Hardy Plant Society mini-group for Shrewsbury and South Shropshire hold our final meet up of the year here as many of us know Jack and Laura quite well. We have the garden, nursery and Tea Room all to ourselves as their opening season has already finished for the year.
The garden looks so good at this time of the year so when we visit we have so much to see and enjoy. Jack also gave us an introductory talk highlighting the plants that perform well at the time of our visit, particularly ones we might not know so well.
As in Piet Oudolf designed gardens plants that die down well are important here.
Equally important are late flowering perennials for colour and grasses that provide texture, movement, sound and light catching abilities. It is a real eye-opener when we walked around Wildgoose to see so many such plants.
Dahlias are one of the most effective plants in the mixed borders here and they are carefully chosen for their colour and shapes.
I will finish off this report of our HPS mini-group meetings with some more general views of borders and pathways.
The nursery and walled garden will be closed until the spring when another set of plants will be creating more wonderful views and plant groupings.
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