RHS Bridgewater Garden - Third Visit?

 Here I am Tuesday morning looking to catch up on the gardens I explored this summer.  Next up, is RHS Bridgewater.  A new garden in the North of England around Manchester.  Always fun to go to Manchester.

The Hepworth Wakefield

The lust gardens around the art gallery in the heart of Yorkshire.  Tom Stuart-Smith designed garden installed in 2019. 

Studley Royal - England

June 10, 2024 - I am catching up on my trip to England, 2024. Click here to see the other gardens we visitedor click here for the Overview post.

The color in this garden is all green no flowers anywhere.  A lot of reflective water surfaces along with a few follies and white statues.  We are back for a second visit nine years later.  One difference is the abbey at the end has had some restoration work.   

RHS Harlow Carr

June 10, 2024 - I am catching up on my trip to England, 2024. Click here to see the other gardens we visitedor click here for the Overview post.

I recall being a bit disappointed with our visit.  Spring seemed late up here in the northern part of England.  I saw few things that really inspired me but that ok.  There is something in every garden waiting to be withheld.  The was a lot of infrastructure projects, a couple of new bridges and vast areas of the garden under renovation.   This little room was Looking good. 

York Gate, England

 Here's some photos of my June trip to England with Frank Eddy.   I love these road trips.

First time to York Gate but have seen numerous photos in Gardens Illustrated magazine.  But photos can only go so far in telling the story of this garden.  

The front entryway looks recently planted with water-wise plants among large borders and gravel.  It is a gravel garden; very trendy since Beth Chatto made it famous.

Leeds, England

 June 8, 2024 - I am catching up on my trip to England, 2024. Click here to see the other gardens we visited or click here for the Overview post.

From Blackpool we head due East to Leeds.  Another fun city in Northern England that you don’t hear much about.  Fun architecture and lively college town offers some good shopping and food.  

Blackpool, England

Click here to see the other gardens we visited or click here for the Overview post.

Now we’re headed toward new land.  First time for purely recreational visit, no gardens really to see here.  We went for the Victorian era seaside beach resort adventure.   Packed with bars and restaurants, roller coasters and theme attractions big in the 1920’s catering to the domestic northern England vacationers.   

Mayfield Park - Manchester

 July 29th

salmon street fish market northern quarter 

lunch NQ

Mayfield Park

Monty Don filming

grassy meadow with flowering perennials. 

slide spanning river Medlock

RHS Bridgewater

 July 28th

Lowther Castle - England

Levens Hall - England

The Alnwick Garden - England

April 29, 2019

Lindisfarne Castle - England

Our first garden to visit on our grand 2019 garden tour of Scotland and norther England is Lindisfarne Castle.  A remote place on the North Sea is an island at high tide but looks more like a pennisula at other times.  People have been coming here for at least 2 millennia.

This castle was converted into a private house in the early 1900's by Lutyens.  Jekyll did the wall garden.  The drama of the garden is best shown in photos as it is remote from the castle.

Castle Howard Gardens

 

Scampston Hall and Gardens

Studley Royal - England

Studley Royal, this idyllic English garden was created in the first half of the 18th century in the scenic Yorkshire Skell river valley. The main approach to the house is a long allee of trees focused on the Ripon Cathedral almost 3 miles on the horizon. The formal part of the garden is isolated from the Palladian house that burned down in 1946 but a similar Palladian style stables remains on 800 acres parkland. The raised valley floor anchored a series of straight and curved canals controlled by numerous weirs. The center of the valley and garden is a series of Moon ponds, one full circle, one half circle and two crescent that may represent the waxing and waning of the Moon. The ponds are laid out in an asymmetrical form that echos the natural serpentine valley floor and is reminiscent of natural oxbow lakes. Clipped yew hedges separate the formal water & Parterre à l'Angloise from the planted native tree hillside. Steep and angular turf banks frame the valley floor. Here the light and wind play off the water surface and the tree canopy. Everywhere the sound of water.

Newby Hall and Gardens

Levens Hall Gardens

 

RHS Harlow Carr Gardens

 

Biddulph Grange Gardens