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.
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...
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We went to Beth Chatto's garden on Saturday. It had a new area since we last saw it 3 years ago.
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?
This wild boar is modelled on the famous Uffizi Boar, a bronze fountain in the Uffizi museum in Florence, by Pietro Tacca c.1634.
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...