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A walk around Calke Abbey
Clip 14 - The flower garden
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Entering the flower gaden	Calke's flower garden is bright and colourful
The brightly coloured Flower Garden has herbaceous borders and 23 flower beds in the lawns, evoking an early Victorian scene. The management of over 4000 bedding plants and 5000 wall plants is quite the opposite of low maintenance! Considerate of their successors, a daily handwritten diary is kept by Steve and the team, recording all the jobs carried out at each and every part of the garden.
The flower garden....
Even plants from tropical climes thrive here!	This stunningly vivd ivy adds its hue to the rest of the beautiful gardens at Calke
Borders edged with precision show love and care as well as attention to detail	A haze of purple
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