On our 2013 visit, we did go on a Lanhydrock garden tour, conducted by one of the very able and knowledgeable volunteers. The National Trust is, reputedly, the world's largest non-profit organization. Every property you visit has a regular staff but also dozens or scores of volunteers, all of them knowledgeable about the property, or at least their bit of it. Our garden guide that day was super, imparting information about the house and grounds, about the forests, the gardens, National Trust gardening practices and policies, and not a little information of use to the home gardeners.
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| A bit of the formal gardens |
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| Parterre |
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Despite what you see here, our tour consisted of about
twenty people, and Vicki is looking off to whatever the
guide was talking about; I personally was intrigued by
the guide's green hair... |
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| Looking back to the house |
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| Tiny water feature |
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| Poppies |
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| Closer-up |
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Why gardens are so daunting (to me, anyway): this is page
one of the map of the particular garden we are standing in... |
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| Rhodos, azaleas, etc., still going strong here |
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| A "handkerchief tree" |
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| Field of wildflowers (not dandelions!) |
1 comment:
I loved the photo of the Parterre garden. I have read that word in books, and had an idea of what they were, but frankly, never bothered to look it up. Thanks for posting the photo so that now I have an image to go with the word!
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