Tag: National Trust

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare…. Petersham Meadows

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A field of buttercups in the deep depth of the countryside? A bucolic scene where black & white cattle graze the long grass and rub their rumps on wild plum and ancient hawthorn? Petersham Meadows, actually, and the cattle are the Belted Galloways that are taking their summer holidays from the main herd at Box…

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Scotney Castle – two for the price of one… @ScotneyCastleNT #SpringWatching

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A ruined 14th Century moated house set in rolling Kent countryside, which, populated by so many rhododendrons, will be even more of a sight in their season... Yes, that's a real Henry Moore on the island... A Victorian mansion built above, and above an imposing Quarry Garden looks over the surrounding estate, ruins and countryside…

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Spring begins to fizz at Sissinghurst Castle – and the whole show will just get better and better…. @Sissinghurst NT #SpringWatching

Categories Architectural Plants, Art in the landscape, Bulbs, Garden Design, General comment, Magnolia, Open to the public, Sissinghurst Castle, spring flowering, Spring Garden2 Comments on Spring begins to fizz at Sissinghurst Castle – and the whole show will just get better and better…. @Sissinghurst NT #SpringWatching

The gates open at 11am sharp and I'm the first to hand in my Shilling token (the price Vita originally charged visitors) to the helpful attendants and I'm flying through, skirting the lawns in front of the Tower and into the woodland Delos garden, before hitting the White Garden (bare bones at this time of…

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Winter Beauty at Osterley Park House and Gardens – a star clematis in the Winter Garden, yellow obelisks in the Tudor Garden, miniature horses in the meadow and… Batman

Categories Architectural Plants, Clematis, Climbing plants, Cutting Garden, General comment, Hellebore, Hydrangea, Lawn Care, Magnolia, National Trust Gardens, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, Pruning, Seasonal colour, Snowdrops (Galanthus), Winter GardenLeave a Comment on Winter Beauty at Osterley Park House and Gardens – a star clematis in the Winter Garden, yellow obelisks in the Tudor Garden, miniature horses in the meadow and… Batman

The Osterley Park estate, including Robert Adam House, formal gardens, parkland and extensive farmland, is rather a surprise, a great swathe of greenery within the urban sprawl of Hounslow, airplanes cutting across the skies from nearby Heathrow. It is one of the last remaining 'country estates' in London and under the care of the National…

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Standen – A meeting with some Remarkable Espalier Apple Trees

Categories Architectural Plants, Fruit Trees, Kitchen Garden, National Trust Gardens, Open to the public, Spring Garden, Winter Garden1 Comment on Standen – A meeting with some Remarkable Espalier Apple Trees

I visited Standen at the beginning of April 2013 and took these photographs then. March, as I recall, had been a frozen tundra of a month with temperatures barely reaching about freezing day or night. The first daffodils were only just coming through, so different to the early Spring enjoyed last year. I am minded…

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Wakehurst Place – Kew Gardens in the Country

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    Wakehurst Place, billed as "Kew Gardens in the Country"   ... my pictures, taken yesterday and a few words from these goodly folk... http://www.kew.org/visit-wakehurst http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/wakehurst-place/ http://www.gardenvisit.com/garden/wakehurst_place_garden http://thegallopinggardener.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/gardens-for-all-seasons-wakehurst-place.html http://thegallopinggardener.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/wonderful-w-gardens-wakehurst-to-wisley.html    

Nymans – Horticultural Pedigree

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One of my favourite gardens here - Nymans, in Handcross, a few miles south of Gatwick and featuring gothic ruins, expansive views, woodland, formal gardens, a grove of Davidia involucrata (the Handkerchief Tree), a 100' pergola walkway smothered in Wisteria, the first Heather Garden in the UK, tropical planting, double herbaceous borders, superb salvias, a…

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A River runs through it… a momentary break from the roses at Mottisfont

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The River Test runs over chalk through the grounds of the ancient Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire. Crystal clear waters, live with fish and overhung with willow... stop for a minute and enjoy the birdsong. http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/mottisfont/