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A Bishop or Two
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 23rd 2016
Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Wells 2016
14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 23rd 2016
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I guess these are popular plants in Anglican gardens, Cherie!
There was a whole bed of different varieties at the Bishop’s Palace.
A nice play on words, then, Cherry???
That was my intention
Good to see the flowers named after various Bishops. You’d have to be careful when naming any prickly flowers
Luckily it is Dahlias that bear the Bishop’s names.
Lovely. What is the collective noun for bishops?
It depends on the Bishop… Psalter, Holy Synod…
These are Dahlias, part of a strain that have Bishop as the series name, and Bishop of Llandaff is the best known…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahlia_%27Bishop_of_Llandaff%27
it became very popular during a fad for dark ‘black’ leaved plants some years ago and still sells well , but in reality the attraction is nothing without the flowers and the black foliage is never easy to place well in a garden as it simply has limited appeal outside that it is unusual, but that is fashion in gardening for you.
I first came across Bishops when I visited the Brockhapmpton Estate earlier this year.
http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2016/06/25/morning-sunshine/
I was tempted by the Bishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of York but our garden was not yet at the stage of being able to plant them so we left them for another day.
The former has lighter leaves and I am interested to find out most of them have dark leaves. Thank you:-)
Without Wiggia here, me no comprended.
you have such beautiful flowered in this presentation Cherie…
it looks like the Bishops names were written with chalk…
would you please correct the one that should be “Bishop Peter Meilleur” ha ha!!!
….peter:)
I didn’t realise that you had been Bishop of Wells