I was lucky to join a number of garden events while visiting the UK this
year. This image was taken at Fenton House in Hampstead, a National
trust property and an example of a smaller stately house with a
traditional design, occupied until recent years by a lady of means who
furnished it with examples of her musical interests and her love of
craft work.
The garden is small and quite formal in layout, it is enclosed by high
brick walls in the traditional manner and it features a significant
collection of fruit trees in an orchard at the bottom of the garden.They
have cider making events here in the autumn.
The vegetable garden was quite special too. The gardener met us and
talked about how the garden had changed and the aspirations he had to
restore it to glory. The rose garden was lovely and featured a wonderful
example of Tuscany superb along with some scotch roses in the borders.
The day was superb ,hot and sunny and hats and sunscreen were needed in
plenty. We enjoyed our lunch in an historic old pub, HollyBush Inn the
oldest hotel in the area. This area was known by boatmen on the Thames
for its snow capped heights-it was the white laundry spread out to dry
by the laundry maids which caught the eye.
This was one of Janine Wookey's tours and well worthwhile so looking
forward to the next day when I join her group again for another trip.We
also toured the Hampstead village and looked at historic buildings,
visited the old cemetery associated with an historic church and found
the burial sites of famous people such as Robert Louis Stevenson and
Daphne Du Maurier,Constable and many other notables.It was a snobby
place to live and die!
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