Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Gardens, Out & About
Information on daffodils from the Attingham Park Estate:
Our wild flower daffodil is considered to be a native plant although it may have been introduced two thousand years ago by the Romans. In the late sixteenth century, John Gerard, the herbalist, regarded daffodils as growing throughout England. Today our wild daffodils only exist in [...]
10 Comments CherryPie on Jun 10th 2011
Filed under Out & About
By the time I had done the circuit of the pool some rain clouds had gathered and it started spotting with rain. I retreated to the tea room and had a glass of cranberry presse and no I didn’t have anything else
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 7th 2011
Filed under Anecdotes, Gardens, Out & About
I was lucky enough to have an extra privilege days leave which was tagged onto this bank holiday meaning I had an extra day off. I also took Friday as leave so I have had a long weekend, mostly chilling out and catching up with a few jobs. The weather wasn’t good enough for [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on May 31st 2011
Filed under Heritage, Science & Nature
The practice of keeping bees in hives dates back at least as far as the ancient Egyptians. The summer edition of the National Trust magazine has an interesting article entitled ‘The Beekeeper’ in which Emma Hill the head gardener for Dunham Massey treats the reader to some interesting facts about bees:
A bee society is predominantly [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on May 30th 2011
Filed under Art, Heritage, Out & About
8 Comments CherryPie on May 27th 2011
Filed under Gardens, Heritage, Out & About
Sudbury Hall is largely the creation of George Vernon who succeeded to the estate in 1660 and subsequently began to rebuild the home the old manor house of his ancestors, probably to his own designs:
Of all the great houses built in Charles II’s reign, Sudbury Hall is one of the most idiosyncratic: a marriage of [...]
12 Comments CherryPie on May 25th 2011
