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Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Science & Nature
Wounded…
When I looked out of my living room window on Saturday morning I was saddened to see a large broken branch lying on top of the fence underneath ‘My Oak Tree‘. Then on Sunday morning I awoke to the sound of a chainsaw… Tree doctors had been called in to remove the damaged limb. This [...]
16 Comments CherryPie on May 4th 2015
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Lincoln 2015
Doddington Hall – Gardens
Remaining faithful to the original Elizabethan layout, mellow walls provide the framework for the formal East Front and West Gardens. Beyond the West Gardens begin the lovingly restored Wild Gardens. Over the generations, most recently by Antony and Victoria Jarvis and Claire and James Birch, the gardens at Doddington have been restored, cared for, nurtured [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Apr 28th 2015
Filed under Gardens
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison
13 Comments CherryPie on Mar 1st 2015
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Hidcote – The Garden Rooms
Hidcote Manor Garden is one of those gardens which can only be found in England! Created by keen horticulturist, Major Lawrence Johnston, on a Cotswold property bought for him by his mother, it is a series of garden rooms with pavilions, clipped hedges, paved paths, topiary and green “doorways” framing one beautiful sight after another.
Divided [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on Feb 19th 2015
Filed under Holidays, Winchester 2014
No Paws Beyond This Point…
4 Comments CherryPie on Oct 24th 2014
Filed under Art, Holidays, Winchester 2014
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
James Allen (1864 – 1912)
16 Comments CherryPie on Oct 19th 2014
