What a brilliant weekend I had. We went to Sizergh Medieval Manor on Sunday. What a lovely place to visit. We didn't manage to do the house as my back was bad and I could not face the stairs but we watched a short film featuring Henry Hornyold-Strickland, 8th Count della Catena, which was very interesting and informative. Well worth watching.
Afterwards we started looking at the gardens and I was surprised just how beautiful they are. Quite impressive and, to my mind, one of the nicest gardens I have seen. The Head Gardener is female, Susan Rowley, and what a fabulous job she has made of the planning of the gardens. I could have spent all day just wandering about and looking at the names of all the plants in the various gardens.
We started off in the Stumpery - and I just loved it. The planting was done around various stumps of trees and gave a lovely backcloth to the many plants and their foliage. I thought this was going to be my favourite part of the gardens and had to have a photo of me besides one of the sections.
I just love how they have used these tree stumps and built the beds around them - I have a fascination with wooden pieces whether raw or finished in some way.
From there we went to the herbaceous border and on to the kitchen garden. I could kick myself for not taking a photograph of the ingenious way they have built the fencing from cherry blossom. It looks so pretty - maybe we will go again shortly!
Despite loving the Stumpery I fell in love with the Rock Garden. I cannot describe it and can only say it is well worth a visit. Despite the meandering pathways and little bridges I just had to wander around and soak up the beauty of this place. I just loved this view and as I walked towards it a guy with a telephoto lens came towards me and said "Fantastic". He too, just loved the view before us.
this is by the water in the rock garden
So striking from a distance
