Renishaw Hall Gardens

It's lovely there!

What a beautiful place - had no idea it was as big as that.
The little plant on the wall is ivy leaved toadflax - is the photo over exposed, because they are normally blue?

What a stunning place! I'm only sorry it's not nearer to us. The plant in the wall I also think is toad flax.

Thanks Dan it was lovely :-)

Bang on Stera :-) I googled thinking I might use it somewhere, especially as it had such a long flowering season, then saw that it was an invasive weed! Ah well ..... Perhaps not:-)

What a lovely place love the photos B/A . If those band of ladies would let me tag along I would bring my picnic basket along and we could have a whale of a time. Next time you are going B/A let me know.

We would love you go come John and we all love eating ........ Shall you bring the wine or shall I ?

At up Waddy, just noticed that my reply to you has vanished ... How? Anyway, you are another clever clogs:-) hope you are well?:-)

Off course B/A I would supply the wine with my picnic basket. How would you and your friends fancy a couple of bottles Pinol Noirs served with some nice chees such as Comte, a hard chees and some Rocomador a soft rounded goat chees and we cannot forget to have Fourme d'Ambert served as a log shape with a mild sweetness. All served with croissant. I like would like to finish with some irish black pudding. I think that is all I could fit in the pickic basket.

Flippin' eck John.... I'm drooling:-) I don't suppose you are any good at baking a nice tarte Provencale with the goats cheese? I love any sort of goats cheese tart and it's a standing joke now 'cos they know what I'll be ordering. We decided to take a packed lunch on this occasion, but I was devastated when I saw their cafe was doing goats cheese and walnut tart ....sounded wonderful:-) By the way I took a nice bottle of shiraz to share with our lunch, unfortunately I also brought plastic wine glasses which are very lightweight and I knocked over a couple ... we didn't drink much ... spilt more lol .... never again:-)

Lovely photos. Looks like you had a fun day out - thanks for sharing :)

Thanks Gee, looking forward to our next outing now:-)

Going back to the toadflax, I wouldn't worry unduly about invasiveness. I'vew never seen it be anything but wellbehaved and it totally refuled to grow at all for me when I tried to establish it in an old crumbling brick wall.

When I looked Stera it said it likes shady positions, was your wall shady? I would love some if it was well behaved:-)