Galleries - Jewel Box Garden
Cottage Garden surrounding heritage home.  This intimate garden features an extensive collection of hellebores, snowdrops and cyclamin in combinagion with other spring blooming shrubs under 100 year old apple tree
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Jewel Box 1 Clematis armandii 2over gate1 .
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Jewel Box 2 Trillium on woodland path1.
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Jewel Box 3  Path with gate, woodland plantings,pink rhodode
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Jewel Box 4   Heritage apple trees1.
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Jewel Box 5euphorbias by entry1.
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Jewel Box 6 euphorbias by entry2.
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Jewel Box 7  hardy sedums (sempervivum)  in planter2 .
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Jewel Box 8 advanced page Peony Molly-the-witch (Paeonia mlo
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Jewel Box 9 advanced page Hellebore hybrids (hybridius)white
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Jewel Box 10 hellebores and companion plantingsB.
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Jewel Box 11 advanced page Hellebore sterneii1.
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Jewel Box 12  advanced page  Hellebore sterneii with darklea
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