Oxford Christ Church Meadow

 August 6th

outside back window Buttery Hotel

nanny state signs

and London

airbnb in Maylebone

Heal’s staircase 

lunch at Selfridge and co

Harry Gordon

Rodmarton Manor - Cotswolds

 August 5th

Lunch at the lamb inn

lunch takes too long

rainy day. 

solidago

field of phalcea californica

metal clip for greenhouse plates

flowers in the kitchen garden

yews planted on the diagonal

peacock topiary graveyard 

birch in the outer kitchen garden

stone buttress 

lichen on birch tree bark

topiary and troughs 

yew urns

Rousham - Cotswolds

 August 4th

Rousham

big tree trunks

follies in the distance

old woodland

naturally lit statue from a dark tunnel 

holly and laurels and english ivy

view from seven arches stone colonnade. 

boxwood in natural form

huge deador cedar

Veratrum nigrum

riverside

Dahlias

Lunch at RH England - Cotswolds

 August 4th Lunch at RH

Lunch at RH Aynho Park

massive showroom

Kiftsgate Court Garden - Cotswolds

 August 3rd

Kiftsgate

ceanothus blooming in August.  ours go off in Feb/march?

agapanthus and Oleander

bee on honeysuckle

long border full of candy 

lillies dahlias, 

sunken garden

california hydrangea carpetaria

astilbe and anemone 

hot orange border 

7 foot dark lillies

hills and farmland

dinner at the bull on sheep street in Charlbury

Hidcote Manor - Cotswolds

 August 3rd

hidcote

dahlias singles in many colors. 

cosmos

haha

six types of insects on Astrantia

wheat fields

 pillar garden

 fuchsia

 white garden

 11-1:30pm

 aiming for 10am. 

picnic by van

Broughton Grange - Cotswolds

 August 2nd

Pelargoniums in terra cotta

aster Monch

tom stuart smith flowering perennials with columns of yews and shapes of hornbeam. 

Banbury countryside

arboretum walk (meadow)

Oak flower

true queen anne lace

Catalpa bignonoides

pleached sycamore

Stumpery

use what you have on site. 

2:00 lunch at fox inn village of Broadwell. 

rarebit with tortilla?

Waterperry Gardens - Oxfordshire

 August 1st

agapanthus popping purple

taxus media ‘Greenland’

apples on slant

100 feet of aster trials.  just budding only a few flowers are open

Artemisia ‘Broughton Silver’

Verbena hastata ‘White Spires’

Zauschneria californica

silent garden

Sopanaria officinalis

Achillea ageratum

Agapanthus ‘Headbourne Hybrids’

Kitaibela vitafolia

trained rose over square arches

Alpine troughs