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6 Comments CherryPie on Aug 21st 2024

We enjoyed lunch and an afternoon walk around Winterbourne Gardens. For some reason the gate to the reservoir was closed leaving us slightly dissapointed.

4 Comments CherryPie on Jul 29th 2024

Wherever nature works, there will be beauty

8 Comments CherryPie on Jul 28th 2024

4 Comments CherryPie on May 1st 2024

Billy Knights, a retired farmer began designing and creating the Water Gardens in 1970 in his 70th year. The site was a damp meadow which became too wet for cattle to graze.
Mr Knights’s son jokingly suggested he should have a water garden, which prompted him to draw out plans (on the back of a piece [...]

11 Comments CherryPie on Feb 28th 2024

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
Blaise Pascal

6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 8th 2023

My recent visit to the Royal Pavilion gardens reminded me of my previous visit many years ago. On that occasion I had intended to visit the Pavilion but there was a long queue so I opted for a quiet lunch in the gardens. I chose the perfect bench but what followed was anything but quiet [...]

8 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2023

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