An NGS open day

wow it was a lovely garden, pleased you took so many pictures and the time to put them on here, what a beautiful place to visit. :O)

Appreciate you effort to posting Shirley.
It's a lovely garden and some super plants. I even liked the garden art. Often those modern sculptures don't do much for me but the ones they had chosen seemed to work.

Thanks, Shirley - what a shame they had such bad weather. The sky wasn't blue, was it? I hope they still had plenty of visitors.
I'd love to have space to have a wild flower meadow - <sigh>. Do you know how big the garden is?

Thanks Oliveoil - it was a pleasure to visit this garden.

I agree with you on the sculptures Scottish - they chose these with great thought and they really do enhance the planting.

No Barbara - the sky was a murky grey! But at least the rain had stopped the day before. It is a half acre garden according to their information.

I can see why you enjoyed the visit here Shirley it looks very well thought out and not too big to walk round and enjoy. The pallet path was novel and looks to have saved the day.

What a fantastic garden and such lovely attention to detail with those often simple additions (the 6 'poles' increasing in height). I liked the water features too and the spiral sculpture, so much to see and it seems so loved. So pleased you put this blog on - I visited a garden yesterday (private just opened for charity) and was so disappointed - lovely trees but just an expanse of lawn, very few plants and a huge swimming pool! The cakes were good though!
Now I feel I have visited a proper garden - thank you :)

Very pleased with the detail of the rocks. I am just trying to sketch The Great Somerset Wall as a background and
couldnt remember the detail of the grade shading.
Thank you !

What a wonderful place to visit Shirley, so much to see and admire, I love the little feature with the ducks too;0)

Wow! Saxons is lovely, with loads of interesting features! I really enjoyed that Shirley. Some of the best ponds I've ever seen, and I love those red 'poles/posts). I shall be putting this on my favourites so I can refer to the pond designs next year, or whenever!

It looks a lot bigger than half an acre - brilliant design. What a pleasant day out - thank you for sharing.

Phyl - I think it was their first ever NGS opening - one they will always remember for the pallets alone I should think!

Gee - how disappointing for your garden visit! At least the cakes were good :o)

Diane - glad to be of help!

Carole - weren't those Ducks just so lovely? Set against the white stone really showed them off too.

Karen - thanks for putting it on to your Favourites - we can glean so many ideas from other gardens can't we? Must admit I did like the red poles as well - I like odd numbers though and would have put one more in!

Stera - deceiving due to the planting and layout - it does look bigger than a half acre!

Lovely :) I enjoyed seeing that garden and I liked the sculptures, which is rather unusual for me :)

Agree with others, Shirley. Modern sculpture is not often to my taste but I really liked the sculpture at Saxons - especially those maroon-ey poles and the various birds and glass. We, also, visited an Open Garden on Sunday and were disappointed. Although the setting and views were spectacular, the planting was rather mundane and uninspiring.

Thanks for viewing this blog Hywel ... are you making any pottery at the moment for your garden?

T'bear - I loved those poles too ... nothing too elaborate but quite eye-catching. I wonder how some gardens qualify for the NGS scheme when I read comments like yours ... such a shame you were disappointed.

I'm slow catching up with GoY lol ...

No I'm not making any pottery at the moment. I need to sort the place out and have the kiln moved. Other things take over and I never can get on with it :(

Welcome to my world Hywel! Always something to do ... :o)

lol It's never ending ... ! :)