Saturday, 7 October 2017
First thing we did was making the bed, prayers, breakfast and getting ready for the day. This is our daily routine that I don't talk much of. Saturday was no different. Clark went with me shopping into Grinstead about 15 minutes away. They five different second hand stores on High Street. Clark was very patient with me. I also forgot to wear my name tag. We went to a store called Iceland that sells mostly freezer food. We bought 3 frozen pizzas for 1 pound each. We came home and had one for lunch. Not bad for an inexpensive pizza.
We took off to see the Nymans Gardens. I wan't to sure about going there because of the weather. It was cloudy and misty rain. We arrive at Nymans and a misty rain started and we got out our umbrella. To our surprise the parking lot was full of the elderly, families with children and couples enjoying the gardens and the house. At the end of the blog I have included a history about Nymans if you are interested in see it. One thing the Messel family did was to bring all kinds of flowers, plants and trees from over all the world. My favorite was the redwood tree. I was impressed with the size of height of the tree. Notice Clark's size to the tree. England is lush and green with foliage everywhere. I have never seen anything so beautiful. I am including some pictures of the house, garden and flowers that were amazing. They had a resident artist painting named John Thompson.
The mission office missionaries and Elder and Sister Lock, Director of the London Visitor Centre went to a Canadian Thanksgiving dinner at the Corbetts. Sister Corbett did a feast with turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, gravy, green beans, corn, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, fruit salad, cabbage salad, broccoli salad, pumpkin pie, apple pie, pecan pie, whipping cream and ice cream. Let's just say it was more food than at our Thanksgiving meals.
We were almost a half hour early to the Corbetts for dinner in Brighton. We decided to drive to the ocean and drive back. We saw the ocean enough to say we saw it and took the round-about and left. We felt like we had plenty of time but got caught in the traffic. I felt bad that we were late for dinner. Below is a few pictures I took of the Brighton. We will go back to Brighton and tour again.
First thing we did was making the bed, prayers, breakfast and getting ready for the day. This is our daily routine that I don't talk much of. Saturday was no different. Clark went with me shopping into Grinstead about 15 minutes away. They five different second hand stores on High Street. Clark was very patient with me. I also forgot to wear my name tag. We went to a store called Iceland that sells mostly freezer food. We bought 3 frozen pizzas for 1 pound each. We came home and had one for lunch. Not bad for an inexpensive pizza.
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| Redwood Tree from California |
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| This would have been a great Christmas tree. Not at all what you think. It is not a pine tree. |
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| Top of Redwood |
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| Special piano made for the Messels. The length was longer than most pianos. It was blessing that the piano survived the fire because it was not in the house at the time. Piano has been reconditioned and working. |
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| John Thompson-resident painter |
The mission office missionaries and Elder and Sister Lock, Director of the London Visitor Centre went to a Canadian Thanksgiving dinner at the Corbetts. Sister Corbett did a feast with turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, gravy, green beans, corn, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, fruit salad, cabbage salad, broccoli salad, pumpkin pie, apple pie, pecan pie, whipping cream and ice cream. Let's just say it was more food than at our Thanksgiving meals.
We were almost a half hour early to the Corbetts for dinner in Brighton. We decided to drive to the ocean and drive back. We saw the ocean enough to say we saw it and took the round-about and left. We felt like we had plenty of time but got caught in the traffic. I felt bad that we were late for dinner. Below is a few pictures I took of the Brighton. We will go back to Brighton and tour again.
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| Two Decker Bus |
Nymans is an English garden in Handcross, Sussex. It was developed, starting in the late 19th century, by three generations of the Messel family, and was brought to renown by Leonard Messel.
In 1953 Nymans became a National Trust property.[1] Nymans is the origin of many sports, selections and hybrids, both planned and serendipitous, some of which can be identified by the term nymansensis, "of Nymans". Eucryphia × nymansensis (E. cordifolia × E. glutinosa) is also known as E. "Nymansay". Magnolia × loebneri'Leonard Messel', Camellia 'Maud Messel' and Forsythia suspensa 'Nymans', with its bronze young stems, are all familiar shrub to gardeners.
History[edit]
In the late 19th century, Ludwig Ernest Wilhelm Leonard Messel (1847-1915), a member of a German Jewish family, settled in England and bought the Nymans estate, a house with 600 acres on a sloping site overlooking the picturesque High Weald of Sussex. There he set about turning the estate into a place for family life and entertainment, with an Arts and Crafts-inspired garden room where topiary features contrast with new plants from temperate zones around the world. Messel's head gardener from 1895 was James Comber, whose expertise helped form plant collections at Nymans of camellias, rhododendrons, which unusually at the time were combined with planting heather (Erica) eucryphias and magnolias. William Robinson advised in establishing the Wild Garden.[2]
His son Colonel Leonard Messel succeeded to the property in 1915 and replaced the nondescript Regency house with the picturesque stone manor, designed by Sir Walter Tapper and Norman Evill in a mellow late Gothic/Tudor style. He and his wife Maud (daughter of Edward Linley Sambourne) extended the garden to the north and subscribed to seed collecting expeditions in the Himalayas and South America.
The garden reached a peak in the 1930s and was regularly opened to the public. The severe reduction of staff in World War II was followed in 1947 by a disastrous fire in the house, which survives as a garden ruin. The house was partially rebuilt and became the home of Leonard Messel's daughter[3] Anne Messel and her second husband the 6th Earl of Rosse. At Leonard Messel's death in 1953 it was willed to the National Trust with 275 acres of woodland, one of the first gardens taken on by the Trust. Lady Rosse continued to serve as Garden Director.
Recent developments[edit]
The garden suffered much damage in the Great Storm of October 1987, losing 486 mature trees and many of the shrubs.[4] The pinetum, one of the garden's earliest features, was destroyed.[5] Restorations are ongoing.[6]
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