Tag: Windsor Great Park

Windsor Great Park, a breezy cycle ride, a little Polo, wildflower meadows, two monarchs on horseback, a lovely picnic and a look around the shop …

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A most perfect afternoon, taking the bikes out to Windsor Great Park. Right around the lake, Virginia Water, stopping at the Old Post Office for a drink, watching the horses at Guards Polo grounds (my, the grass was green...) then on to the Copper Horse and the shade of a beautiful Oak tree for a…

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The Savill Garden and Windsor Great Park – summer cycling and a picnic, roses, dry gardens, shady glades and boggy bits, castles, lakes and wide open spaces

Categories Architectural Plants, David Austin roses, Fragrant plants, Garden Design, General comment, Grasses, Mediterranean Garden, Open to the public, Plants for a shady garden?, plants for roses, Rhododendron & Azalea, Savill Garden, Summer garden, The Savill GardenLeave a Comment on The Savill Garden and Windsor Great Park – summer cycling and a picnic, roses, dry gardens, shady glades and boggy bits, castles, lakes and wide open spaces

The Savill Garden was our first port of call today, an impressive collection of gardens within the larger vision of Windsor Great Park. I wanted to have a look at the rose garden in particular, a swirling design of tapering interlocking beds, the colour of the roses intensifying towards the centre (peaking with Munstead Wood,…

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Windsor Great Park – two monarchs, two horses, one castle, a Derbyshire millstone, a Royal Lodge and some remarkable trees

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Heading out from The Savill Garden, map in hand, to explore the park and woodland, trails, bridle ways and to gaze across the vistas and views across to Windsor Castle. Elizabeth II on her Jubilee Horse and George III on his Copper Horse, and all under bright blue skies. I think next time we'll take…

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The Savill Garden, fragrant, fizzing with colour and all set for Spring

Categories Bulbs, Camellias, Fragrant plants, Open to the public, Savill Garden, Snowdrops (Galanthus), spring flowering, Spring Garden, The Savill Garden, Winter GardenLeave a Comment on The Savill Garden, fragrant, fizzing with colour and all set for Spring

Rhododendrons like this amazing Choremia Tower Court, blazing in the sunshine this afternoon in The Savill Garden within the greater Windsor Great Park - made this a fine choice for a walk, through these extensive gardens before exploring further into The Royal Landscape to search out the Jubilee Horse and the Copper Horse, with views…

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The Savill Garden in November (well Autumn last year but I must return there soon…!)

Categories Autumn garden, Fragrant plants, General comment, Grasses, Hydrangea, Japanese Maples (Acers), Magnolia, Open to the public, Ornamental trees, Roses, Savill Garden, The Savill Garden, Trees, Trees for smaller gardens, Wildlife gardeningLeave a Comment on The Savill Garden in November (well Autumn last year but I must return there soon…!)

I'm reprising these photos, taken almost exactly a year ago, in The Savill Garden, part of Windsor Great Park, cosseted by Virginia Water. I must return there soon, before the strengthening winds strip the trees bare. I hope these pictures might convince you to put on your wellies and get out there too - or…

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Magnolias – a New Ice Age at The Savill Garden

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Look up! These are, for the most part, big trees in the landscape, tall, towering forms with blossoms in crystalline white, glacial and very probably played by Tilda Swinton in the movie - but there are elsewhere, blushes of pink too, still cool but not so icy and with one, a definite warm, deep-rose. All…

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Spring delights in the The Savill Garden

Categories Bulbs, Camellias, Climbing plants, Flowering Cherry, Fragrant plants, General comment, Hellebore, herbaceous, Japanese Maples (Acers), Open to the public, Plants for a shady garden?, Rhododendron & Azalea, Seasonal colour, spring flowering, Spring Garden, The Savill Garden, Wildlife gardeningLeave a Comment on Spring delights in the The Savill Garden

  A pageant of colour - rhododendrons and camellias, hellebores and pulmonarias, cherry blossom, crocus, narcissus, daphne and more - but which group of plants is missing from this gallery. It's a biggie?! Links http://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/gardens-and-landscape/the-savill-garden http://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/seasonal-highlights/the-savill-garden/march-and-april/ http://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/visitor-information/the-savill-building/

Virginia Water in Autumn

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A walk around the whole of Virginia Water, from The Savill Garden, past ruins and totem poles, cascades and beneath glorious autumn colour. Low, slanting sun, blue skies, golden foliage... Rejuvenating! http://www.theroyallandscape.co.uk/gardens-and-landscape/virginia-water/