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Foggy Bottom - A Garden To Share

Foggy Bottom - A Garden To Share

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Welcome to the Foggy Bottom Garden Website!

I created this space to share my Garden with you.

When Rosemary and I were married in Trumpington church, near Cambridge in October 1966, our house at Bressingham wasn’t even completed. Having helped local builders in small ways at weekends since March that year, we were quite happy to move in. Returning from a few days’ honeymoon in a very wet Lake District in North West England, we managed for three months with only one bedroom and a kitchen finished. There was no garden.

The home was built in the north-east corner of a seven-acre meadow of which below was a wood, and a herd of cattle enjoyed the verdant grass for most of the year.

The house (we didn’t like the term bungalow) was initially set within one acre, and a barbed wire fence was put up to deter cattle from invading what was to become our family area and garden.

During my travels in the United States in 1959 and 1960, I had come across a place called ‘Foggy Bottom’, and we thought this a great name to give our house and garden.

Such was the beginning of the development of the eventual six-acre all season Foggy Bottom Garden, which has played such a central role in my own and my family’s life, and far beyond. The full story is revealed in my latest book: Foggy Bottom - a Garden to Share, which starts with the Foggy Bottom of today: what it is, and what it means. In it, I reveal its development, decade by decade, since 1966 and the environment in which the garden grew, whilst sharing my observation on plants, design and photography.

Photography has been my other life long passion. I have been lucky enough to be able to record the evolution of the garden day after day, season after season, year after year. This has resulted in an extensive photo library which has made this book possible.

I hope you enjoy this space

All the best

Adrian Bloom

Instagram Feed form the Foggy Bottom Account for daily updates

Yes the Autumn colours are fading but there’s still plenty to see! In the foreground, we have the vibrant hues of Cornus Midwinter Fire, the soft plumes of pampas grass, and the rich tones of Cotinus. Behind them, the Ginkgo Biloba lights up
We’d definitely take frost over snow in the autumn, and you can see why!While snow tends to blanket everything, the delicate frost on the Ophiopogon leaves in Adrian’s private garden still shines through, even in midmorning. Nature’
Rozanne just doesn’t give up until a severe frost arrives. Here it is in the first couple of weeks of November and still full of flower! From June to November is a pretty good flowering performance, don’t you think? We do of course, stoc
This view in the Summer Garden shows the value of woody plants and conifers (as well as grasses) A fairly dramatic end to the Autumn season as the leaves turn and fall, revealing the early flowering pampas grass Cortaderia Selloana ‘Patagonia&r
I always try to not only capture the feeling of time and light in my photos but also to explore interesting angles that convey the atmosphere. Here, you can see a pampas grass, the purple leaves of a weeping Fagus sylvatica purpurea pendular, a grace
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One of the last Euonymus species to retain its leaves, Euonymus carnosus is a striking plant that draws attention at Foggy Bottom during late autumn. A Chinese variety, it is often referred to by the aptly named cultivar Euonymus cannosus ‘Red
Check out this incredible pine cone from Adrian’s collection! It comes from the Pinus lambertiana – the Sugar Pine, known as the tallest and largest of all pine species! Don’t worry, though—you won’t need to dodge any f
From this shady position we are looking into the sun which is striking the leaves of a Witch Hazel Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Diane’ I had cut some lower branches from some surrounding trees so this could be more fully displayed. #hamamelis
The towering giant redwoods stand proudly at the back of Adrain’s Wood behind other deciduous trees and the bridge must be crossed to reach Foggy Bottom further to the left. Come and walk through the gardens this week before they close this we