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Garden Visits 2019

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  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Glad you stuck with me through that marathon @punkdoc .......definitely worth a visit sometime soon 😁
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Beautiful, isn't it @chicky As soon as I got back from my visit I order two lots of those Iris ensata Rose Queen.  It's exactly my type of garden, can't believe I haven't visited it before.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    Those iris were perfection @Yviestevie ...as you can tell, I was rather blown away by the whole place.  Exactly my type of garden too 😍
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Thanks for the pics @chicky . Have you been to Dixter or Sissinghurst? I'm wondering how they compare to WOH.
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    @Fire I've been to Dixter and Sissinghurst and IMHO Wollerton is right up there with them.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • chickychicky Posts: 10,410
    @fire .....have been to both Dixter and Sissinghurst ......both lovely, but both much larger. Wollerton Old Hall is quite small in comparison, and so feels more intimate.  Also probably helped by the time we visited - end of June and a sunny day .....can’t get much better than that 👍🏻

    IMO Dixter is a “man’s” garden, whilst Sissinghurst is more “lady”.  Can’t put my finger on why, but I got exactly the same feeling at Hidcote(manly) and Kiftsgate (womanly).  Thats probably not PC, but it was the feeling I got 🤔
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I'd love to go to the Hall one day; Beth Chatto too.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    gawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwjuss. 
    And all the better for perfect weather and no crowds.
    Devon.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Yes. It looked very quiet. Heaven.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Fab photos Chicky.  I really liked the DA ones and WOH which is much better, for me, than Sissinghurst which I found disappointing and Great Dixter which I liked.

    I shall have another look when I'm oop north as internet is so slow here the pics jumped about a bit.   Thanks for taking the time to post so many for us to enjoy.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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