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A Garden in May – Trentham
Here we are with post number 5 of this series looking at the gardens at Trentham where we are trying to discover if Trentham really is a “garden of all seasons”. For our May visit we were hoping for...
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A Walk in the Park – Croome
A a rare warm day in May we met my sister, Penny and husband Tony, for a walk in the park near their home. But this is no ordinary park – it was Croome a National Trust property near the village of...
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A Wonderful Community Garden
Returning from a few days away down south we made a diversion from the direct route home to visit a community garden in the Wiltshire town of Swindon, a town renowned in its heyday for manufacturing...
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Aiming for a year round garden – our garden in August.
This series aims to check out if we have been successful in creating a garden for all seasons with interest throughout the year. In this post we look at our Avocet garden here in Plealey in the first...
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Cliveden – the house and garden of Nancy Astor
While holidaying around Cambridge earlier in the year we stopped off on our travels to have a wander around the gardens at Cliveden, the one time home of Nancy Astor. She was an English MP even though...
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Post 500 – Part Two – a further visit to the “Oudolf Field”
As promised I am returning to the beautiful county of Somerset where Jude and I spent a day exploring the exciting new “Oudolf Field” and the gallery buildings at the Hauser and Wirth’s Durslade Farm....
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Aiming for an all year round garden – our garden in December.
The final chapter! December. We have followed the journey through the months of 2014 looking at our garden trying to decide whether we have succeeded in our aim of creating a garden with interest in...
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Walking the Shrewsbury Battlefield – Part 2
Back at the site of the Battle of Shrewsbury we return to look more closely at the church and the sculptural tree. First though it might be a good idea to say a little about the battle itself. The...
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Yellow Book Gardens – 4 – Upper Shelderton Hall
We set out to visit our fourth Yellow Book garden on a cloudy day that promised showers and with a chill in the air. However as we drove down through the Shropshire countryside the skies cleared and...
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A Week in the Lake District – Part One – Sizergh
We decided that it was about time we re-visited one of our favourite family holiday destinations from when our children were youngsters, the Lake District. So a week in early June saw us journeying...
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Harold Hillier in Hampshire
We have had the Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire on our bucket list of places to visit for a few years now so we decided that the summer of 2015 was the time to go. We had great expectations! But...
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Harold Hillier in Hampshire – Part 2
So here we are back in Hampshire and still wandering around the miles of paths along which we explored the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens. The Acer Grove was full of colour when the sun hit the foliage...
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Aulden Farm – another Yellow Book garden
We open our garden under the auspices of the National Garden Scheme and love to see our garden in its famous Yellow Book. But we also love to visit other gardens from the Yellow Book. We recently...
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Aulden Farm Gardens – Part 2
As promised I am back with more photographs from our visit to the gardens at Aulden Farm in Herefordshire. Firstly I would love to share a gallery of photos of the many pieces of garden sculpture we...
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Salisbury – a cathedral city
We hadn’t visited the city of Salisbury for many years so as we traveled down to Hampshire for a mid-week break we decided to drop off there on our way. We wondered if any memories were stirred up. We...
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Getting Creative in the Woodlands
In my last post we looked at what we discovered was going on in the old Walled Garden at Attinham Park and I finished just as we left the walled garden behind and began wandering around the woodlands....
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Arboreta in Autumn – Batsford Part 2
As we return to Batsford we are still wandering along the pathway that promised us views of plen1ty of unusual and beautiful trees and shrubs. Being autumn of course gives us the added benefits that it...
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A Devon Garden with Betulas – Part 2
Back at Stone Lane we continued wandering along the grass paths which were so soft underfoot. We enjoyed discovering more and more Birches with beautifully coloured and textured bark and fine winter...
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A Devon Garden with Betulas – Part 3
Welcome back to Stone Lane Garden in Devon for part three of the report of our visit. We continued our meanderings along the grass, wood chip and gravel paths through the woodlands that are home to...
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Sculpture at RHS Rosemoor Garden
We love seeing sculpture outdoors whether in wild landscapes such as the “Sheep Enclosures” by Andy Goldsworthy, on the shore such as Anthony Gormley’s “Another Place” or in gardens. When we visited...
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