Archive for the 'Gardens' Category

Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
Chad Sugg

12 Comments CherryPie on Sep 15th 2019

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach

13 Comments CherryPie on Sep 8th 2019

On bank holiday Sunday I attended attended a family wedding, this led to us staying in Cheltenham for a couple of nights due to this being the area where the wedding took place.

During my stay I was able to do some urban walking around Cheltenham.

In addition to the urban walking the hotel corridors from the [...]

18 Comments CherryPie on Aug 28th 2019

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 25th 2019

The garden is laid out into areas separated by walls and hedges.
The garden layout was developed in the early 20th century, by Dr. Price, including laying down triangular and diamond shaped flagstone paths. The ornamental domes of box were planted in the 1920s.[9] The early landscaping was expanded and planted starting in 1933 by Phyllis Reiss in [...]

14 Comments CherryPie on Aug 22nd 2019

In October 2005, Mr Alan Titchmarsh, the well known gardening celebrity, officially opened the first new public garden in Sherborne for 100 years commemorating 1300 years since the founding of Sherborne Abbey and town.

The open space that is now Paddock Garden was once occupied by a row of cottages facing onto Newland. These were destroyed [...]

4 Comments CherryPie on Aug 11th 2019

After not quite making it to Attingham Park yesterday I was able to have an afternoon walk there today. I had been wavering in my intention, the weather was sunny with a few fluffy white clouds in the sky but it was rather windy. Was I in the mood for a windy walk?

I had to [...]

10 Comments CherryPie on Aug 7th 2019

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