{"id":3079,"date":"2019-05-03T17:01:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2019-05-03T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T16:02:00","slug":"hampton-court-garden-nursery-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grayshottgardeners.net\/?p=3079","title":{"rendered":"Hampton Court Garden Nursery visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nursery Tour with Martin Einchcomb<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Grayshott\nGardeners were privileged to take part in a private tour conducted by\nHead of Nursery Martin Einchcomb, who donated his time in return for\na donation to the Perennial charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

he Nursery comprises 15 glasshouses covering one acre, and the team of 7 (helped by volunteers) produces plants for 60 acres of formal gardens at the Hampton Court and Kensington Palaces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\nFollowing a brief introduction, Martin conducted us past an array of \ntropical and semi-tropical plants, the famous Exoticks Collection \noriginally started by Queen Mary II, parts of which survived until the \nFirst World War when lack of manpower and attention led to the last \nplants dying out. Since 1987, the Gardens & Estate team and lately \nMartin, have devoted much time and effort in researching the specimens \nin Mary’s collection and bringing them back once more to Hampton Court. \nIt is one of the three National Plant Collections at Hampton Court and \nhas now been recogni\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other\nglasshouses contained masses of bedding plants not usually seen at\ngarden centres but well-known to the Victorians, as most of the\nplants produced here are destined to fit in with the historic\nsettings of the Palaces, flowering in (what now seem) old-fashioned\ncolours. These include pelargoniums, lantanas, and also coleus with\nvivid colour variations in the leaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n