After a morning cycling round the countryside doing the Tour of Tendring, a relaxing afternoon was the order of the day, and we picked well in heading off to Layer Marney Tower for their mini beer and music festival.
We finally made it to RHS Garden Hyde Hall today, and were hugely impressed!
We’ve driven around the north-west of Essex for many years, seeing the brown tourist signs for The Gardens of Easton Lodge, and finally got there today. They are only open on a limited number of days throughout the year, and this was the first of the main season (they were open for the snowdrops in [...]
We enjoyed our trip to Marks Hall last weekend to admire their snowdrops, and looking at this weekend there are a number of other options for getting some fresh air and admiring a snowdrop carpet. The Gibberd Garden in Harlow, from 11:30 – 4:00, are offering ‘Soup and Snowdrops’ – at £4.00 a head. More [...]
It was grey and windy this afternoon, but the rain held off long enough for us to spend an hour walking around Marks Hall Gardens and Arboretum, admiring the snowdrops, and wonderful white, red and yellow bark on some of their trees and bushes, some of which were beautifully fragrant. There are a couple [...]
Before we went for our Sunday roast we visited Hylands House in Chelmsford. It was the first time we had visited and we hadn’t realised how much there is to do there.
We wanted to make the most of the spring sunshine today, and so decided to visit Ickworth House www.nationaltrust.org,uk which is just outside Bury St Edmunds . Instead of taking the main roads we drove through the countryside. The route took us through Sudbury and then past the turning for Long Melford. which is a lovely village [...]
Even though we live very near to Beth Chatto’s garden www.bethchatto.co.uk which is in Elmstead Market, I have only visited once and that was many years ago.
Just a note about our short visit to Mark’s Hall Gardens and Arboretum last Sunday. We dropped by to visit their Christmas Farmer’s Market. It was £2 per car to get in, but we didn’t feel there was enough value for money from the market even at that low price! In contrast to previous visits to their [...]
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