Delightful little courtyard garden? No. Just all the ‘driveway plants.’ Every plantaholic has these. The plants that are unloaded from the car waiting in the drive to be planted.
This vignette was put together by our British host just before we arrived for a tour.
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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.
© All photos & text 2010
Recently, Tara Dillard of A Garden View, posted about frames in the landscape. It brought to mind a lovely vignette I saw in a garden while in England. Initially I thought an artist had set up to paint.
As I approached
I saw
What had been ‘Framed’.
The lesson here is that framing a view brings it into relief. Scroll back to the last photo, see the difference? See Tara’s post here.
©All photos & text 2010
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