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

East Ruston Old Varcarage - East Anglia

 July 26th

white agapanthus frank likes

lots of walking 34 acres on double hedges 

full cottage garden mess

i like how there’s no maps, signage or labels. 

more of a mystery fun to get lost. 

large rooms with apple and liq amber

long hallways of green

bees and butterflies on lysmatchia 

open 12-5 lunch 12-2 tea after. 

Sheffield Botanical Gardens - Midlands

 July 27th

botanical gatdens july 27

garden of pooled talents

sheffield botanical garden

city park feel used by neighbors 

long row of glass houses sorted by exotic places. 

plant labels

175 yo? sequoia g. 

petrified stump

prairie garden 

squirrels all running towards me. 

Agapanthus coddii 

fuchsia pink

healthy red maple

shard sink for watering 

double central flower border. 

cast iron water fountain 

The Garden of Pooled Talents - Sheffield

 July 27

Sheffield Botanical Gardens

July 27, 2023

city park feel used by neighbors 

long row of glass houses sorted by exotic places. 

plant labels

175 yo? sequoia g. 

petrified stump

prairie garden 

squirrels all running towards me. 

Agapanthus coddii 

fuchsia pink

healthy red maple

shard sink for watering 

double central flower border. 

cast iron water fountain 

Sheffield - Grey to Green

 

Part storm water and pollution mitigation and removal of impermeable concrete areas and plant out with shrubs, trees and flowering perennials.

Pensthorpe - East Anglia

 July 27th

millennial garden Piet Odorf

natural reserve with flowering perennial 

Bressingham Garden - East Anglia

 July 25th

Beth Chatto's Garden - East Anglia

July 25th

 Beth Chatto

 gravel garden and nursery 

RHS Hyde Hall - East Anglia

 July 24th

Batsford Arbortum - Cotswolds

 July 23rd

Crossrail Place @ Canary Wharf - London

 July 21

Reflection Garden - London Saint Paul's Churchyard

July 19th

English Garden and Nursery Tour

 It’s finally here.   Headed to SFO in a couple of hours for our flight to London.   Frank and I have been planning this trip since February and we both excited the time is here.   Below is a rough outline of our path staring in London, then to Oxford to pick up a car, couple days scouting food in the Cotswolds, then a loop East to Suffolk and Norfolk.   Then up to Sheffield, Manchester, Birmingham and back to Oxford where we change car for van and pick up our guests in Bicester.  Our formal five day tour of the Cotswolds gardens starts.   Based out of Deddington, we will be visiting Broughton Grange, Hidcote, Kiftsgate, Rodmarton Manor and Rousham.  After the tour, we head back for a couple days in London and return home in San Francisco.