As early as our final weeks in Paris, we had feared that we might have scheduled our visit to Bodnant a bit late for the rhododendron bloom. It had been a spring of climate irregularities, and there was the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation* too, which warms the Isles and particularly those lands, like Wales, bordering the Irish Sea. Blooms might come earlier there than in the south. Alas, our fears were well-founded, and our visit to Bodnant this year was not our best. Still, we think of Bodnant as the best all-around of all the British gardens we have seen. And we were hardly late for its most iconic piece, the Labernum Arch. The best Bodnant pix are from 2022:
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| In the Labernum Arch, 55 meters of golden glory |
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| Been there for a while |
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| The rhodos thinning but still there |
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Celebrating an anniversary of Bodnant's rhodos...
they were more into breeding than collecting (as was
Exbury) |
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| Some spent |
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| Some not |
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| And plenty else to look at |
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| Among Bodnant's many big trees |
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| Allergies anyone? |
*known to persons of our vintage as the Gulf Stream
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