Today’s garden visit is to a formal garden, with garden rooms, a pond, orchard, kitchen garden & wild meadow. I love coming here, there is so much to see & enjoy. I love the way the garden changes through the seasons. The tulips have faded, but the wisteria clad around the house is beautiful – at its best.

Peonies have fat flower buds ready to slowly unfold & reveal blousy flowers. Tactile, ferns tightly curled, ready to unfurl. Gardens are a delight to the senses, there is a leaf that attracts my attention. It’s soft to touch, velvety & thick. There is a beauty in the leaves alone.This is a perennial geranium, I wish there was a plant label to identify this one!

Signs of spring abound in this garden. Trees in the orchard are heavy with blossom, while on the path a butterfly finds a stray petal to rest on. Birds love this garden too & there are several blackbirds that search the lawn for the choicest of insects.