Its travel season again. If my passport does not get here in time, I will be homebound. I am consoling myself with photographs from trips past & exercising a mighty imagination!
with Tara Dillard (left) above, we enjoyed this perennial garden which we entered via. . .
this opened gate, (above) we found. . .
along this wall.
Look at the perfectly edged Vegetable garden below. Can this be real? No mulch, that means constant weeding & cultivating!
Look at these gardens below. The English are masters of the ‘mixed border’.
Notice how the repetition of tall plants gives the border below rhythm, while the one above is colour driven. 
Ancient yews,
some clipped into fantastical shapes,
elegant balustrading punctuated by a pot on every pier. . . 
and the incomparable countryside … 
There must always be time for tea.
and more gardens. . .
featuring hydrangeas!! I know I promised no more … but these are not mine and I can’t help that others find them as appealing as I do.
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Recreating Eden Landscape Blog 
How fun to have been in the same garden with you then see your shots today. I’m touring them again, but better.
Your captions mentioning things from your vast store of knowledge.
Poppet we can keep this kind of touring going. A pleasure.
Odd, I don’t WANT to go to Europe this year touring gardens. Wanting my new conservatory built from windows at the dump. Oh, yes. Such a hunger for my own garden.
Did you see that Fergus Garrett is speaking at ABG, Wed. Sept. 1 at 7pm? FREE.
Garden & Be Well, XO Tara
The countryside shots look remarkably like the area in which I live. The rolling hills with multi coloured farms is what I see out my windows.
Love
M
Always ready for another garden tour! And tea time;-)
Fascinating yew forms.
Thank you for bringing a beauty to my early morning computer time,
Alice
Sandra,
Your blog is incredible! How do you find the time to blog and travel? My garden seems to take all my time, maybe in a few years? Anyway I am out to do my daily weeding.
I have never seen the grass so green and the colours so vivid as they are in Wales. Thank you for sharing these beautiful photos!