One of the places I visited during my long weekend was Burton Agnes Hall. The hall has a very fine garden which is one of the best I have visited. I will be posting on both the hall and the garden more fully in due course, but for now meet Agnes (the 2nd).
Whilst designing [...]
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Filed under Gardens, Holidays, York 2010
PhotoHunt – Bubbles
26 Comments CherryPie on Jun 11th 2010
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Holidays, York 2010
Lady Anne Middleton’s Hotel
I found this hotel via the internet and it appealed to me straight away because it had it’s own garden and a car park. The hotel consists of collection of six historic buildings some of which are grade II listed. The website provides a bit of history on each of the buildings:
Walking through the grounds of [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 11th 2010
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Zooming In…
… on that courtyard garden from yesterday’s post.
In the brief moments when I was back at the hotel, I noticed that the courtyard was used by businessmen for team-working. It was interesting to look down on them and wonder what they were doing.
You can also see towards the back of the photo that overall [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on May 26th 2010
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Chirk Castle – Spring Colour
Moving away from the castle and into the gardens there was a lovely display of spring flowers. I did think of Uncle Bernard as I took these, although there aren’t 10,000 in this border.
9 Comments CherryPie on May 9th 2010
Filed under Gardens, Holidays, Malmesbury 2009
PhotoHunt – Addiction
I think most of my regular readers know I am addicted to gardens
The words over the gateway say:
A GARDEN SWEET ENCLOSED WITH WALLES STRONG
THE ARBORES AND AYLES SO PLEASANT AND SO DULCE
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20 Comments CherryPie on Apr 23rd 2010
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So That Was Christmas
Delays earlier this evening meant I have been in a mad rush to get all the Christmas decorations down. Now I know some of you will say they should have been taken down yesterday but my family has always done them on the 6th (unless they got bored of them earlier). So please [...]
18 Comments CherryPie on Jan 6th 2010
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PhotoHunt – Artificial
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46 Comments CherryPie on Aug 14th 2009
