Hello @Eustace, it's not a brilliant photo because the roses could have done with dead heading and I didn't want to tread on their flower bed to take the best photo. There are photos on Internet, Peter Beales, David Austin etc. It looked prettier in real life, the pink stamens were quite striking.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
We visited a beautiful Rose garden at Challis (France),For the annual “rose day”, 3 days of specialist nurseries. A real pleasure to visit a lesser known château and ruins of an abbey. So many stunning plants to buy but the star was certainly this garden.
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
St Fagan's Museum near Cardiff. Most of it is a collection of historic, vernacular Welsh buildings resited within the museum grounds, but it's also the location of St Fagan's Castle which has rather lovely gardens itself.
Kitchen garden & vinery. Not in good condition - they're raising money to restore.
Elsewhere on the site:
There was also a terrace of six tiny miners' houses from Merthyr Tydfil (built 1795). Each displayed at a different period of their history - 1805, 1855, 1895, 1925, 1955 and 1985 - with the garden also matching the period shown (the gardens were bigger than the houses):
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
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Most of it is a collection of historic, vernacular Welsh buildings resited within the museum grounds, but it's also the location of St Fagan's Castle which has rather lovely gardens itself.
Kitchen garden & vinery. Not in good condition - they're raising money to restore.
Elsewhere on the site:
There was also a terrace of six tiny miners' houses from Merthyr Tydfil (built 1795). Each displayed at a different period of their history - 1805, 1855, 1895, 1925, 1955 and 1985 - with the garden also matching the period shown (the gardens were bigger than the houses):
We went to Houghton Hall in North Norfolk today. Lovely warm day and the 5 acre Walled Garden was beautiful.
This water fountain also had a flame that came out with the water.