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While we were in Wales we also visited Colby Woodland Garden where we spent a very pleasant few hours roaming around the woods and strolling around the walled garden.
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Looking along the valley away from the Lodge. |
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Looking towards the Lodge from the edge of the wood. |
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One of the easier pathways through the woods, the rhodos and azalias were giving their best but there were very few bluebells to be seen at this time. |
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The water level looked fairly low and the water was moving pretty fast. I do not think I would like to be near when this 'stream' was in full spate. |
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There is also a Walled Garden at Colby. There was plenty in flower to see inside the walled garden including hellebores, hebes, a beautiful magnolia as you entered the garden, several viburnums and lovely deep red camelia named 'Anticipation'.
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A view looking down from the gazebo towards the lodge. The New Zealand Flax 'Phormium tenax purpurea' is on the left and there is a magnolia 'Magnolia soulangiana' on the right. |
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Time for break, the beech hedge makes a good wind break. |
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Another view acroos the garden towards the entrance with a Chaenomeles japonica in the foreground, primulas and muscari to the left and pulmonaria used as under planting around the trees. |
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