RHS Garden Wisley
Today is my birthday and to celebrate my brother and I went to see RHS Garden Wisley for the first time. This is my second RHS Garden visit following last year’s trip to RHS Rosemoor for Milo’s 40th a big celebration which took place in North Devon. As much as I really enjoyed seeing RHS Rosemoor for the first time at that time, I hadn’t qualified as a student of horticulture culture. I only received that accolade a week ago. So in this case, RHS Wisley represents the final furlong of this educational journey.
It was a wonderful finale to a wonderful few years spent at Lackham College studying horticulture in which I made many new pals and am glad and pleased to say that I gained a new qualification that of level 2 horticulture! I left it quite late to go to see this Garden it has been receiving more visitors recently, although recent roadworks have disrupted the flow of visitors to the site which may have been one reason why I wasn’t able to go initially. For students of horticultural level two, I would firmly recommend that you visit this garden before beginning the course it forms a very useful reference point for work in the subject and an introduction to the course in general. And take your camera with you, because this is a very good way of sharing ideas. As with other posts I am creating a record of my travels and a photographic record of the plants is hopefully quite useful.
As a garden, it reads as a kind of Gestalt but if features the work of some well known designers! There’s a lot to take in as many things I haven’t seen you guys with RHS Rosemoor which was opened in 1980s the scale is truly immense. Wisley also has the distinction of being the first ever RHS garden, showcases work by remarkable garden designers such as Piet Oudolf and Gemma Neece.
If you only see one, I would recommend this one there are six in total. And I’ve heard good things about all of them. They are periodically featured in television programs and magazines and they feature as part of the backbone of the course, naturally!
I really enjoyed just taking in the sites and sound of the garden the fact it has an educational aspect, including The hilltop talks of which I went to to one on the Hackberry tree and one on Wingnut trees both of which I have not heard of before despite doing the course. The photo gallery included with this post shows just how impressive this garden is to see visit and hopefully you’ll be able to see it for yourself if you haven’t already. It would really super professional photographers as a site to through the medium film and digital or celluloid. In my case, I j just use the iPhone camera for this and got some great as you can see!
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