Your garden With Jude Costello
HOW good was last weekend, with rain and three beautiful gardens to visit!
Once again we were privileged with Yarrabindi II, Eynsford and Mrs Maclean’s rose garden being open.
The first two are beautifully manicured formal gardens with old established trees and shrubs and the latter a treasure trove of roses.
When I was at university, Yarrabindi was a student house and the garden definitely did not have the structure and beauty it now does, what a great renovation and vision has gone into this lovely garden.
Lots of curves and structures, pleached hedges, an old yew, tree ferns and tiny box hedges define the beds of roses with beautiful effect.
Eynsford has lovely old mature trees protecting the garden, holly oak, gingko, hornbeam, elm, torulosa some of which pre-date the house. A wonderful example of cryptomeria with its unique shape adorns the front garden.
The formal drive has been beautifully designed and leads you into various rooms. The overhead shade is perfect for rhododendrons and camelias and an under storey of little treasures.
The newer formal water feature rose garden and vegie garden at the back of the house have been done with imagination and style and look fabulous. The old espaliered fruit trees are a sight to see, clearly the garden has always been nurtured and cared for.
Mrs Maclean’s rose collection! Well what can I say, truly an amazing array of roses from all the different groups from HT’s to many old and species roses, the heady perfume pervading the air.
There’s a wonderful use of multilayers with climbers, pillars, hedged rugosas and shrubs all in close proximity and some clematis to boot.
What I wouldn’t give to revisit these roses with the ID list in my hand and Mrs Maclean to teach me so much! Saumarez is so lucky to have such a generous benefactor.
Hope you are all enjoying the fresh green since the rain, now for some follow-up.
