The National Trust has been keeping some of the country's most treasured places safe for over 100 years now, making historic houses and gardens, as well as beautiful landscapes available to visitors. This summmer, take a trip to one of these gorgeous gardens and support their work, while taking in breathtaking displays of flowers, shady woodlands, and tranquil waterways. Opening hours and ticket prices can be found on the website of each garden.
The perfect place to spend a sunny day, Lacock Abbey offers visitors the opportunity to visit a historic house, explore The Fox Talbot Museum of photography, wander through the nearby historic village of Lacock and of course enjoy the grounds and gardens. The sprawling grounds encompass both a rose garden and botanical garden – perfect for spotting colourful summer blooms as well as bees and butterflies. To seek some shade on a hot day, visitors can enjoy the apple orchard or wander beneath the leafy canopy of the woodland garden. The village of Lacock is also not to be missed – owned by the National Trust, it has been beautifully preserved and has served as a set for many famous TV and film productions including Pride & Prejudice and Harry Potter.
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A smart seventeenth-century house close to Hampstead Heath, Fenton House and Garden is the ideal place to escape the city on a warm day – so long as that day is Friday, Sunday or Bank Holiday Monday. In the formal part of the garden, clipped lawns are hemmed by colourful borders and complemented by neatly trimmed topiary. The sunken rose garden is at its best in the summer months when the branches are laden down with fragrant blooms. As well as the purely ornamental
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Today we’re visiting with Rachel, a gardener and artist living in Elgin, Illinois (Zone 5b). She moved in 2022 to 1.5 acres and is in the process of designing and planting a fabulous front garden. She’s also diving into forest restoration for the back half-acre—making it beautiful for wildlife and her kiddos.
A few weeks ago, frequent GPOD contributor Cherry Ong took us along on her visit to Bellevue Botanical Garden in Bellevue, Washington (GPOD on the Road: Bellevue Botanical Garden) but she sent too many photos to share that day, so we’re going back today to see some more of the beautiful images of this inspiring public garden.
Several times a year a visitor to our garden is shocked to find a rogue steak knife pierced downward in one of the beds, as if it were an escapee from our kitchen knife block. I’m always quick to tell them that it’s indeed where I meant to place it, and that I haven’t found any tool as great as a serrated knife when it comes to removing grass or root systems. It’s perfect for edging small areas or pulling up entire sheets of grass; all I have to do is start on one side and pull up as I carefully saw back and forth. It can be a cheap purchase from a thrift store—or in my case, the way I finally convinced my husband that we needed a new set of kitchen knives.
Moss campion plant (Silene acaulis) is a rock garden plant native to the Arctic tundra and high mountains of Europe and North America. In the U.S., it is confined to the Western mountains and New England, particularly Maine and New Hampshire. Its mat-forming, evergreen foliage is found tucked away in elevations too high for trees to grow, with harsh winters and short summers. While it cannot survive in the shade, it prefers moist soil.
Arianne gardens in a small city lot in chilly Minneapolis (Zone 4B) and fills her space with an abundance of beautiful flowers. Even more impressively, she grows many of her plants herself from seed.
As the seasons start to change, now is the perfect time to take a trip to your nearest garden. Enjoy a long walk and catch the very last of late summer, while watching leaves turn amber and gold. Make sure to use your 2-for-1 Gardens card on your visit to ensure you’re making savings on your day out.