Great photos - thanks folks! Wonderful plant associations. Some beautiful eryngiums and grasses especially.
Sounds as if you had a fab day.
It is the plant associations that really stand out.
Verdun, you have to come up here and pay Bressingham a visit some time - you really would love it - East Anglians don't bite ........... well, not very often
And this really is the best time of year to see Bressingham - it's probably the best I've ever seen it
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The snake was greenish. I didn't see the head, but I saw two feet of thick body slithering into the shrubbery. I didn't think grass snakes got that big. I think it must have been curled up on a stone by the waters edge, and as soon as it felt vibrations from my clod hoppers it disappeared. I got home just after nine. Accident near Newmarket slowed the A14 down, then another on the junction with A1 caused gridlock. Getting off and going through Godmanchester didnt help much, but once I got past the A1, I got back on the A14, then wanged through to M1 and home.
At 4-30 I was the only person in the gardens, absolute bliss wandering around and daydreaming. I squashed a couple of lily beetles for them.
At 5.30 I was the only customer in the garden centre.
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What sort of snake was it fidget? I like snakes
Were you very late back?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Great photos - thanks folks! Wonderful plant associations.
Some beautiful eryngiums and grasses especially.
Sounds as if you had a fab day.
Glad your all home safely
Few more pics.
Beautiful pics Wonky, thanks for sharing.
It is the plant associations that really stand out.
Verdun, you have to come up here and pay Bressingham a visit some time - you really would love it - East Anglians don't bite ........... well, not very often
And this really is the best time of year to see Bressingham - it's probably the best I've ever seen it
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Fidget, glad you got back home ok.
It was great to see you! Folks, that's quite some sparkler she has on her finger! 
Love snakes - was it a grass snake? Great grass snake habitat around there
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The snake was greenish. I didn't see the head, but I saw two feet of thick body slithering into the shrubbery. I didn't think grass snakes got that big. I think it must have been curled up on a stone by the waters edge, and as soon as it felt vibrations from my clod hoppers it disappeared. I got home just after nine. Accident near Newmarket slowed the A14 down, then another on the junction with A1 caused gridlock. Getting off and going through Godmanchester didnt help much, but once I got past the A1, I got back on the A14, then wanged through to M1 and home.
At 4-30 I was the only person in the gardens, absolute bliss wandering around and daydreaming. I squashed a couple of lily beetles for them.
At 5.30 I was the only customer in the garden centre.
Grass snakes do get that big Fidget
In the sticks near Peterborough
We used to get whoppers when we lived at The Mill
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.