We’re visiting with Tingshu Hu from Massachusetts again today. We’ve visited their beautiful garden in the spring when the flowering trees are stealing the show, and today they’re sharing their garden in the summer, with photos they took in June:
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Worcestershire provides some of the country’s loveliest scenery. With the Cotswolds to the south-east, the Malverns and the Shropshire Hills to the west and several notable rivers, including the Avon, the Severn and Teme running through it, this is a fertile, bucolic landscape that’s perfect for exploration and very conducive to agriculture.
The Vale of Evesham is home to miles of fruit orchards and vegetable crops, which thrive on the region’s alluvial soils. The year begins in spring, with Evesham’s British Asparagus Festival; in July and August, the Georgian town of Pershore turns purple for its Plum Festival.
But it’s not all fruit and vegetables here. Broadway is a gorgeous chocolate-box village filled with independent shops, galleries and places to eat and often referred to as the ‘Jewel of the Cotswolds’. To the north, the county town of Worcester holds sway: Worcester Cathedral is the burial site of King John. Malvern, to the west, is the birthplace of Sir Edward Elgar. Download a map of The Elgar Route from visitthemalverns.org, which leads you around the composer’s most beloved sites.
Near Worcester, Spetchley Park is a 30-acre Victorian paradise boasting an enviable collection of rare plant treasures, surrounded by glorious countryside and a deer park. A garden of contrasts, Spetchley combines formal clipped hedges, rose beds and sweeping lawns with tumbling herbaceous borders, walls adorned with rampant climbers and winding paths that lead visitors from the quintessentially English to the unmistakably Mediterranean.
Autumn sees a mass of asters at Old Court Nursery and The Picton Garden near Malvern. And no visit to Worcestershire is complete without a stop at splendid Morton Hall, famous for its Tulip
We’re visiting with Tingshu Hu from Massachusetts again today. We’ve visited their beautiful garden in the spring when the flowering trees are stealing the show, and today they’re sharing their garden in the summer, with photos they took in June:
We’re back in Massachusetts, visiting with Tingshu Hu again. Yesterday we took a look at summer in her front garden, today she’s sharing views from her beautiful back garden, with photos all taken last June.
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Kathy Sandel sent in just a few more photos of hercurrent garden in Sacramento, California, and I couldn’t resist sharing them:
It’s the classic January flex when we start looking forward to the end of winter and the re-awakening of the garden.
We visited Harriet Johnson’s Maine garden last week, but just focused on what she’d planted in a space that had previously been an in ground pool. She mentioned to me that she had other garden spaces too, so I asked if she’d let us visit those as well… happily she agreed, and today we’re getting a tour of the space she calls her fence garden:
Last week Kathy Sandel shared her former garden in Calabasas, California, and today we’re back visiting her current garden in Sacramento:
Today we’re visiting with Harriet Robinson:
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