Picton Castle Walled Garden

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This week the Lens Artists Photo Challenge theme is Wonder.  P. A. Moed Creative Exploration In Words And Pictures invites us “to create a post that captures a moment, a feeling, a place, a person—which filled you with wonder.”

Walled garden Picton Castle

Walled garden Picton Castle

Last week, we were in Wales, and one of our days out involved a trip to Picton Castle, a 18th century stately home (that was a previously a medieval Castle) in Pembrokeshire. The highlight of the day was the magnificent walled gardens.  It is definitely a place to fill you with wonder on the amazing world of plants. The shapes, colours, textures of the flowers, from hot red to spikey blues and greys.

Spikey greys
Thistles
A pond plant
Brigt pink
Shapes
Colour
Hot reds
Patels
pink rose

Ferns.

Fernery
Fernery

A herb garden and succulents.

The garden has only three full time staff members looking after it (and the rest of the grounds). And some volunteers. They do an amazing job.

21 thoughts on “Picton Castle Walled Garden”

  1. Leya

    What a beautiful place! The lush green and all the flowers – beautifully caught. I don’t think we visited Picton Castle when we went to Wales in the 1980’s. Walled gardens are wonders in themselves, and this one a stark contrast to the dry yellow-brownish nature here in Sweden now.

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    1. Murtagh's Meadow Post author

      I always love visiting walled gardens too and i think this is one of the nicest i have visited.

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  5. janesmudgeegarden

    Lovely flowers, I do like the eryngium and the little white flower with the pink centre, which I don’t recognise. It looks like a beautiful and peaceful place to visit.

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    1. Murtagh's Meadow Post author

      I have never grown eryngium successfully but after seeing them their am inspired to try again. I am not sure if the little white one was some kind of mallow??

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