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Garden Visits 2018

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  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    These photos were taken at Margery Fish's cottage garden, East Lambrook Manor










    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    These are photos of the National Trust's property, Barrington Court.







    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Did you go in the barns there? All the sections of roof truss are all individually marked with carpenters numbers. I loved it there.
    Devon.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    edited July 2018
    I've really enjoyed catching up on this thread. Some of the gardens shown bring back happy memories such as Great Dixter and Forde Abbey.

    We went to Beth Chatto's garden on Saturday. It had a new area since we last saw it 3 years ago.











    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    These gardens are superb and great for inspiration.
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    ooo. Beth Chatto and Wisley are next on my list. I so loved Sissinghurst and Dixter.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Beth Chatto's garden is on my bucket list, l would love to see the dry garden, particularly in view of the weather we're experiencing at the moment !
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Great photos everyone - thank you for making the time to share.

    Loved the carved tree trunk in the first Garden Yvie.....and the view through the hedge to the ruin.  And the planting at East Lambrook looks wonderful.  Glad you had a good trip.

    Beth Chatto’s looking good as ever Lizzie - which is the new bit?
  • I went to a plant fair at Henbury Hall in Cheshire on Saturday. Not a lot of flowers except for Inulas, but a nice lily pond and specimen trees, and a number of sculptures.


    This wild boar is modelled on the famous Uffizi Boar, a bronze fountain in the Uffizi museum in Florence, by Pietro Tacca c.1634.




     
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    Just caught up with this thread (I thought I had it bookmarked but I didn't, so had no notifications that anything had been added lately). Wow Yvie you've been quite a trip! Great photos - Abbotsbury looks so lush and green even in the heat. The Bishop's Palace is gorgeous isn't it? And Margery Fish's garden... I am envious. Barrington Court looks wonderful too.
    Mike Clarke you take a good photo. Thanks for sharing.
    Fire, those allotments look very neat! I go to a local allotment open day every year,  it's one of my favourite things to do. Such a good atmosphere. Unfortunately all the local allotments seem to have their open days on the same day, so you have to pick which one to go to. That's a lovely Cornus kousa they've got. Glad you enjoyed Sissinghurst and Great Dixter. I need to go back - it's been a long time.
    Thanks for the Beth Chatto garden photos, BL. It looks so beautiful and interesting. One day I'll get thre...
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
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