A visit to Hidcote Manor Garden

glad you got to go linda, it looks beautifull, lovely pictures, hope you enjoyed seeing your son to :o))

It really looks beautiful Linda. Thanks for sharing your photos....and you look lovely too! :))

Linda, it looks just like my back garden!!! (not). It's gorgeous, some lovely photos you've taken.

Very nice

I`ve seen it on the telly and would love to visit, so appreciate your sharing your photo`s, thankyou ...

I love Hidcote...thanks for the photos! :-)))

Thank you all for your kind comments.
I wish my back garden looked like Hidcote. It is my new favourite garden. It is divided into lots of rooms that look different depending on from which side you approach them. I wish I lived closer so I could see the garden at different times of the year.
I think I will have to visit the boys more often!!!

What a lovely place to visit. Glad you enjoyed it, lovely photos. Thank you for posting them. Love that thatched roof, think that might be a place I would like to see one day.

Olive, think of all the plants named for Hidcote - my new lavenders, for example - and Hypericum 'Hidcote' too.:-)))

Linda, are the famous (and spectacular) red borders still there?

It looks amazing Spritz, bit far for a visit I think, looks like my kind of garden though, amazing how many plants get there names from special places though, lovely idea.

Mum, have you been up to Harlow Carr yet? It will be fantastic just now...the herbaceous borders are stunning! Lunch in Betty's too.....you and Sammie could go together...girly day out, shopping in Harrogate!

No never been Karen, don't think Sam would like it she isn't into flowers YET!! I have been promised a trip to look around the Sculpture Park near where they are going to live. Henry Moore sculptures etc. really will enjoy that. I love sculpture. One day will go to Harlow Carr not this year though,Sam too busy just yet with her house and is in school doing the work to set up for new term. Hopefully soon for that trip. Always wanted to see it.

I am off to a wedding in Derbyshire at the weekend. My TWO sons are best men. (wearing kilts Sandra) Fun is a foot!! Perhaps a visit to Harlow Carr is a possibility en route Karen. We are going to York on the way back to see an exhibition. I hope the garden is open on a Friday!!!:o) I am off to Google it........
I visited Hidcote in June Spritz.........perhaps the red borders are a summer spectacular. This is why I would like to visit Hidcote once a month.
We visited the garden from Scotland, Olive. If you are going to London at any time it is worth a detour.

Fab photos Linda! Well, yours always are! A visit to Hidcote would be a dream come true, and Great Dixter!...sigh... Thanks for letting me visit with you, it was lovely!! Oh! Enjoy the wedding!

It's a dream of a garden Linda. So glad you got to see it. Hope the wedding goes well too. I am still trying to grow your seeds of the tall plant that blooms then dies. There was an article in the last RHS Garden Mag about growing them.

Gosh! that is interesting Dorjac. I never have any luck with the seeds......I get hundreds of them from the flower head. Good Luck!

I think it said the seeds had to be really fresh for best success......but a can't find the bloomin magazine Linda. Still you would'nt get a chance for a long time for another lot of fresh seeds!!

I think I will have some next year Dorjac. I did follow instructions but........

This is a great garden..the red border has two little summer houses, one on each side at the end of the border Linda. I loved the Cedar of Lebanon too..such a huge old tree..
Just remembered I have a pic of red border when we visited a few years back. Will post it for you.
Thanks for taking me down memory lane..great pictures

It is still my favourite Tetrarch.

Ill bet! Its one of the most celebrated gardens I think..Linda, Ive added a few pics to the Hidcote file on Places to Visit, but they are coming up on my main photos too. I dont want you to think Im usurping your blog my dear, just that there should be more for people to look at if they visit Places to Visit. Its a shame that you cant add them when you do a blog for yours are really good and should be there.

lovely photos linda, its a place i really like to visit, the cafe is now a bit bigger ~ tulip time is amazing here!

i dont live far from here and my mum and dad used to live very close so we often used to visit then!

It is my favourite garden. I would love to be able to visit it at different times of the year.

let me know next time you are down this way!!! its not so far from lulu either!!!

I found out about Lulu being near after I had been there. It is a lovely part of the world.

Lovely to look over these pictures again in 'bleak mid winter'. I like Lulu and thought she would do better on 'Strictly' Her partner was too tall for her I think.

I meant our GoY Lulu.....not the singer. :0)
The singer Lulu went to school with my two cousins here in Glasgow. ( I read Strictly as Sticki at first. He! He!)

I like both lulu's ~ perhaps GoY lulu will be on strictly too?!!!

Goy strictly!!!! ha ha ~ but i would be one of those that is fired out of a cannon or arrives on a swing or a winch ~ im hopeless at dancing!

How mad are we?

mad enough to have fun/ make us smile and laugh?

I still think he was too tall for Lulu in 'Sticki Come Dancing'. that Munchkin man would have been the best for Lulu.

I like the name....Sticki Come Dancing. Suits the situation.

oh no ~ sticki come dancing ~ would be banned on the grounds of:
health and safety
hideous dancing?
everyone would throw things at their tv!!!

which is munchkin man dorjac ~ is that the italian?

Those manic judges kept referring to the 2 shortest dancers as 'The Munchkins'. They were lovely and got eliminated very late on. Lulu is so tiny and she was paired with a giant. I'm sure your dancing would be look good if you had their training Sticki.

ah yes i remember now ~ little munchkins ~ think i prefer the chocolate factory type!

you are much too kind dorjac ~ they would run away in horror ~ i am hopeless.

I'm with you Sticki.....I like the chocolate type too. I admit to being a Strictly addict too.

I hate dancing myself so i dont even know why i like the program ~ i think its to do with the competition and how the characters interact?

I sort of liked ballroom dancing, if I had a short and competent partner. My OH is 6 foot and I am only 5 foot. I loved jiving to Trad Jazz. I like Strictly because of the lighting, the wild enthusiasm. The amazing wardrobe provided. I watch all sorts of activities I could not do now.....like arduous walks, farming activities, sports of all kinds and F1 racing. Evening heavy digging a la Monti Don would be unwise. If only I could have occupied his shoulder bag for the Italian gardens visits!!

i like to watch programs about travel ~ so i still get to see the places but i dont have to worry about flying or getting sea sick!

We have a sixteen hour journey to Mauritius in March. I don't mine the first half to Dubai but the last half is sore on your rear. The reward is the wonderful trees and plants in flower and the warm air. :0)

I shall look forward to more pictures please Linda!

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