- Bitton church, South Gloucestershire
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Picture by Len Gun
‘The fair-weather gardener, who will do nothing except when wind and weather and everything else are favourable, is never a master of his craft.’
Canon Ellacombe from A Gloucestershire Garden, 1895
Old School Gardener
‘Batsford Arboretum is a 55-acre arboretum and botanical park near Batsford in Gloucestershire, England… It is owned and run by the Batsford Foundation, a registered charity, and is open to the public daily throughout most of the year. The arboretum sits on the Cotswold scarp and contains around 2,900 trees, with a large collection of Japanese maples, magnolias and pines. It miantains the national collection of Prunus (sato-sakura group) – Japanese Flowering Cherry- under the National Plant Collection Scheme run by the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens (NCCPG).’
Source: Wikipedia
Old School Garden 