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High summer is marked by the globe flowers of hundreds of blue and white agapanthus lining the drive and paths together with the flowering Eucalyptus ficifolia and the Lagerströmia indica, followed by banks of hydrangeas. In September large drifts of pink belladonna lilies spring from the ground. The first Sasanqua camellias appear in October. Mildred Blandy, who grew up in South Africa, regularly sailed home on the Union Castle Line bringing back a magnificent series of proteas which grow in profusion on a bank just below the main house. Among these are the King Protea, shaped like a giant pink artichoke.
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