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Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Razzle Dazzle Rose

Razzle Dazzle de Rose

For my photo choice I’ve given Razzle Dazzle more flair by giving the roses a french touch, naming it Razzle Dazzle de Rose. These were more of the beautiful flowers seen on my English Garden Tour, 2015. Did I tell you I received the book, Gardens to Visit 2016, from the National Garden Scheme? I am in the throws of planning my visit this summer to gardens in Cornwall, Devon, Sussex and Kent, oh my!

Razzle Dazzle Rose is the fluorescent color originally known as Hot Magenta from 1972 to 1990. In the “Discovery Series” it was known as Blast Off.

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge!

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Purple Pizzazz

Beautiful Purple Pizzazz in the UK Cottage Garden

A Spot of Purple Pizzazz

In Europe Crayola calls Purple Pizzazz, Powerful Purple. In the US Purple Pizzazz is a fluorescent color which was introduced to the line in 1990.

In the cottage gardens of the UK you will find some Powerful Purples clustered together to make a beautiful Purple Pizzazz spot in the garden!

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge!

Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola; Piggy Pink

A Cottage Garden in Warninglid, UK

I looked through a good many of my pictures, but alas, no pig to be found! So no pig in a poke! Where did that phrase come from?

A poke is a sack or bag. It has a French origin as “poque” and, like several other French words, its diminutive is formed by adding “ette” or “et”—hence “pocket” meaning “small bag”. Poke is still in use in several English-speaking places, including Scotland and some regions of the USA. For example among English hop growers, a poke is a large sack into which hops are poured to be taken from the picking machine to the oast for drying. Now remember my pictures of an oast? Here is one in case you forgot. If you would like to learn more about Oasts, I wrote a post (look HERE) during my English Garden Tour!

The Oast at Bateman’s, Home of Rudyard Kipling

In the middle ages, “the pig in a poke” scheme entailed the sale of a suckling pig in a poke. The bag, sold unopened, would actually contain a cat or dog! The French idiom acheter (un) chat en poche (to buy a cat in a bag) refers to an actual sale of this nature. Translation: Don’t buy anything that you haven’t looked over carefully first! Well I looked over all my pictures carefully! No pig, but I do have a photo of a lovely English garden in Warningild with beautiful pink roses!

Pig Pink, also known as Piggy Pink, was added to the Crayola collection in 1998.

This post is just one of many in the Color Your World: 120 Days of Crayola Challenge! Enjoy!

The (MY) English Garden Tour: Garden 12, Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

The original tree, that dominated the previous garden, before the houses were built!

Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

We have reached our final garden in Warninglid, at the Yeoveney House. This garden is planted with rhododendron, camellias, azaleas, and hostas and other lovely plants in shades of lime green and chocolate-black colorings that have been so popular in the gardens here. As usual there was a “special something,” featured in this garden too. Each garden was so different and interesting!

I want to take this time also to answer questions that I have been asked over the past weeks while I wrote these posts. I was not in a specialized, planned, garden tour with a group. First, I joined the National Trust Society. (in the U.S. it is called The Royal Oak Society) I do not remember exactly how I came to know about the National Garden Schemes, (maybe Facebook?) but I planned and researched the trip on my own, in order to visit the National Trust homes and the gardens on the NGS in the area of Kent and Sussex. All the listings were in the books I received after joining their societies. I just picked an area I thought would be interesting and went for it! I was not disappointed! The gardens we have visited have been splendid and it has been one of our best vacations ever! We loved driving around the countryside, eating in the local pubs, discovering the gardens, and visiting with other gardeners! This allowed us to get out and really enjoy the locals and learn about the UK! So without further ado, I give you Youveney House Garden. Thank you Warninglid, and the other gardens we visited, for making our garden tour so special!

Here is the back of Yeoveney House, revealing the conservatory linked to a new art studio!

Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

The special surprise at Yeoveney House was a WWI memorial!

Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

The people in the background are checking out the artwork!

Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

This gardener loves hostas as much as I do! You can never have enough!

Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

Wow, this is a beauty!

Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

Beautiful sweet peas!

Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

Everything is so neat and tidy!

Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

In front of the garden shed were raised beds for vegetables in the garden.

Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

Here is the strawberry patch! Clever!

Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

Let’s add the tomato garden as well.

Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

My favorite, favorite, favorite! Love the color!!!!!

Yeoveney House, Warninglid, Sussex

We say goodbye to Warninglid at the red telephone booth in the village center. We had a great time! See you tomorrow at Batemans, a National Trust Estate! Enjoy!

The Red Telephone Booth, Warninglid, Sussex

The England Garden Tour: Garden 11, Beeches, Warninglid, Sussex

Beeches, Warninglid, Sussex

Anchoring the end of Cuckfield Lane, the garden at Beeches was like taking a walk in a National Park. The owners have spent twenty years adding many shrubs and specialty trees to their two acre natural woodland garden. Linked ponds and pools of different levels were also created from a ditch on their property. The look of this garden is very different from the others we have visited in Warninglid and that is what has made them all so special! Now following the path around another dutch design cottage let’s take a walk to the back!

Here is a fabulous extension to their cottage! A glass house if I ever saw one!

Beeches, Warninglid, Sussex

There is a freshly mowed path for us to follow through the woods.

Beeches, Warninglid, Sussex

I loved the foxgloves and ferns that just popped up everywhere!

Beeches, Warninglid, Sussex

Don’t you just love this color of red? It just makes the woodlands pop!

Beeches, Warninglid, Sussex

And here, by the first pond, the plum color of that tree just draws your eye to that area!

Beeches, Warninglid, Sussex

This was the first of many ponds. So tranquil!

Beeches, Warninglid, Sussex

The owner sat by the edge of a pond, sipping his tea, and occasionally detailed what we were looking at and what he had done to create the ponds.

Beeches, Warninglid, Sussex

The water trough.

Beeches, Warninglid, Sussex

This owl won’t be drinking from the trough. He was sculpted from that tree!

Beeches, Warninglid, Sussex

And for the finale, the Charlie Brown Christmas tree! We enjoyed Beeches! See you tomorrow in the garden!

Beeches, Warninglid, Sussex

The English Garden Tour: Garden 10, Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

Hay House is a lovely dutch-design looking cottage sitting on an acre of ground that is wheel-chair accessible. Here on Cuckfield Lane we are seeing a more architecturally diverse style of home. The modern use of the term, dutch design, is to indicate a broad gambrel roof with flaring eaves that extend over the long sides, resembling a barn in construction. The early houses built by settlers were often a single room, with additions added to either end (or short side) and very often a porch along both long sides. Typically, walls were made of stone and a chimney was located on one or both ends. Looking at the front of this cottage we indeed see the placement of two chimneys and the tell-tale gambrel roof. Following a sweep of lawn and a herbaceous border, with a large climbing pale, pink rose clinging to the cottage, we are invited to come look.

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

Following the drive around the house to a large, smooth, flat area in the back, we see it is perfect for a croquet match!

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

Here is the walkway into the garden at the back of the cottage.

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex.

There is a room on the back, adding an extension to the house, just as predicted!

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex.

Strolling along the flower beds I spy a tall, curly, woody, pod plant. What is that? Can one of my gardening friends tell me? It is extraordinary!

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

Here is the LIME and black combo we have seen in several gardens! I would love it in mine too!

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

Can anyone tell me what the pinky-purple star clusters are? Are they from the allum family?

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

The garden was surrounded by a huge, huge, well tended hedge! Look for it in other pictures of the garden too!

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

Love, love, love this color combo!

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

Here is a nice place to sit and watch the croquet match!

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

Every garden had a greenhouse of some kind!

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

This is another unusual plant to me. I thought at first it was made of wood! Those petals did look like sculptured wood, but it was a plant! What is it?

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

I could certainly while-away the hours here and write to my heart’s content in that room!!

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

Everything is so tidy in the vegetable beds!

Hay House, Warninglid, Sussex

A very tropical looking palm tree got my attention too! There were several plants that I had never seen before in this garden. If you can identify them for me I would very much appreciate it! Hay House was lovely and had so much to offer! I have been so impressed with the choice of gardens here in Warniglid! See you tomorrow in the garden!