Final Saturday I went on the lengthy awaited journey to Longstock Water Gardens. These are located on the River Take a look at close to Stockbridge and are the creation of retailer John Spedan Lewis of John Lewis and Waitrose fame. Eager to create the gardens he had a telephone line put in to the thatched summer season home in order that he might nonetheless be available to run his empire whereas creating his gardens. There’s a good article from Dan Copper concerning the gardens right here (Opening instances and costs at the moment are totally different, as Dan visited in June 2013) See right here for present charges and opening hours.
Because of private circumstances we visited on the final open weekend of the season and I’d say that most of the floral shows have been completed. A go to in Spring or Summer time can be my suggestion.
Lewis diverted the river and created islands inside the gardens which might be reached by small bridges. There have been dahlias and lilies, verbena and extra nonetheless in flower. I’m afraid that a few of the vegetation I didn’t know the names of and couldn’t discover the related title tags.
I don’t know what these have been, the label that I photographed beside them turned out to be for a yellow number of tick weed, which wasn’t flowering at the moment of the yr.
A fairly palm or banana with dahlias rising beneath.
There have been loads of cyclamen across the gardens.
Undecided what these have been, however there have been additionally some creamy ones.
A brief drive or stroll from the gardens is Longstock Park Nursery set in a walled backyard, with tea rooms and a small farm store, all value a go to. One other good article concerning the gardens might be discovered right here on The Backyard Customer Web site.
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Rosie
