It’s been a good summer for gardens so far, notwithstanding a couple of periods of very heavy rain and some unwelcome winds. The photo above was taken at Helmsley Walled Garden: always a joy to visit but particularly resplendent in July. The cafe is very good too, if you’re patient. But it’s not all herbaceous borders…
Some very well organised vegetables at the new RHS Bridgewater Garden and the very old garden at Arley Hall, Cheshire. Both gardens have lots of colourful flowers and shrubs too, of course, but these beds took our fancy. Up in Yorkshire, two gardens on hillsides…
Castle Bolton, complete with maze, and Parcevall Hall, showing part of the rock garden. Parcevall is an amazing, varied garden created from sloping grazing land just under a hundred years ago. And to complete this clutch of gardens, a shot of Fern House a few weeks ago.
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