A visit to tranquility

Fantastic pictures Sticki. Love the black plants in the first picture. Stunning! And the aquilegia and peonies (wish my new ones that big)...in fact there is nothing here I can dislike at all!
We will make it there one day.Keep the pics coming they are super..

sorry im not sure what those black things are but they make quite an impact
i will do more but im having to resize all of them to get less pixels ~ or it wont load up!
maybe tomorrow?
the best is yet to come!!

Great..I will be waiting...

That is a beautifull garden ST. I have those black plants, what the heck are they called again!
I love the girl reading the book Sculpture, and the trees with the white bark, They make such a statement. Im looking forward to Tranquility 2...

A wonderful place,Sticki..my kind of garden..I love the sculpture too,and those 'in your face'Aquilegias ..your photo's are so good,..and a lovely blog..Look forward to part 2..:o)

What a fab place and super photos!! Where abouts is it?

Its Kingswinford in the West Midlands GD
this is the postcode ~ if you cut and paste it into google maps it will take you there
DY6 0AE

thank you for your very kind comments ~ you need to visit to see it properly ~ it is a beautiful garden, the pictures dont do it justice and it was a dull day [weather wise]. hopefully the next set of pictures will be better.

that looks gawjuss ............ love the girl on the bench and the yellow p.

What a lovely place Sticki, great photos, enjoyed that very much.

Sticki you have done the garden justice OH and I have know John and his fantastic Nursery for more years than I care to remember, he is one of the nicest people you could wish to meet and a very talented grower of Lewisias Hellebores,(Ashwood strain) Hepaticas and has won many a gold medal. You most probably know all this?
I am looking forward to you next set of photos, we have not visited this year too much to do here......a very nostalgic trip for me......thanks.

A lovely day out thankyou for taking us along with you lovely picture's.

What a lovely garden - full of beautiful plants. I especially like the yellow peonies - very unusual colour.

Wonderful garden, thanks for sharing it with us!
Are the Teazels really sculptures?

Excellent Stickitoffee - I love the pictures and funnily enough the ginkgo tree is what we have in the front garden but couldn't remember its name last night! I believe it is the oldest type tree in the world. It has lovely stone and grael parts to the garden and that huge pot is glorious!!!!! Great and useful blog :):):):))

he has a really gorgeous garden. JEALOUS!

Lovely blog with some great pictures... i love those thistle sculptures and the gold border :) Glad you had a nice day out.

thank you for all your lovely comments ~ we ought to be able to send them to john cos he is the one that made the garden; i have put some more pictures on a blog called tranquility 2

Thank you so much Sticki - a really lovely blog, and SO much better than the brief one I did last year! It's changed a bit since I was there - I hadn't seen the sculpture of the girl before, but everything is looking absolutely beautiful.

Really glad you went, and met up with Daylily . . . what a treat.

i couldnt stop taking photos ~ i also think it depends what time of year you go ~ thank you soooo much for telling me about it.

"I couldn't stop myself!" :))

:-))

absolutly beautifull :o)

Thanks for sharing your visit ... looks such a beautiful garden. : o )

Lovely blog, I think the birch are Betula utilis Jacquemontii, very nice, I have a teeny tiny one.

i have a betula which was meant to be a white one but it isnt! i only wish i had ~ i think they are lovely.
it is a beautiful garden i thoroughly agree ~ thanks for looking at the photos.

HI Sticki :^)) The birches at this garden were the reason i chose to plant one last year to replace a tree that died, bought with my birthday money, i bought it from there too!! The tree is quite tall but still a baby, Betula utilis Jacquemonti 'Silver Shadow', so hoping it will be a nice one. Brilliant blog by the way!!

What a wonderful rich tapestry of plants, each grouping makes such a beautiful picture, thanks for sharing Stiki;0))

hi daylily ~ i also have a nice picture of you and your daughter!! thanks for your very kind comments.
that was a very sensible choice to buy your tree from there ~ and what a lovely, memorable present.

thanks PP ~ it certainly is a beautiful tapestry ~ one that i want to remember for a very long time.

Stunning Sticki, I will find my way there one day. Until then your blog is the next best thing:-)

Going in my favs and hoping to visit one day, it looks a fantastic garden Sticki and I thank you for sharing your day out.....Your photo`s are gorgeous....

you're more than welcome lincslass, thank you and thank you Ba, will look forward to your photos when you visit

Lovely photos Sticki. Beautifully laid out gardens. Love the little girl on the seat. She could sit on one of my seats anytime.....but I don't think I could afford her.

Nor could I dorjac - I think it would be one of those window displays with no price tickets. And then I know I can't afford it!

It's good to see an image in modern dress, rather than a fantasy one, or old fashioned pair of a boy tugging a girls skirt, such as we have in the garden, offering her an apple.....hidden meaning? Every form has its place, as we are all so different in taste and likes. A grandchild done this way perhaps?.....trouble is the others might say ....what about us? When I win the lottery or big premium bond.

You could have small versions so there would be one for each? How many grandchildren do you have?
What I like about this one is that it's realistic, there are some statues in cities now also in much more realistic poses, one in Birmingham is reclining on some steps.

That was me Sticki:-)

Ah it was you then - it was the eighteenth century male clothing that obviously fooled me!

No grandchildren Sticki...sigh... but I know some children keep a close eye on 'fairness'. You would get a shock if you saw a realistic fibreglass image of yourself reclining in a garden centre. About the cheapest way of doing it. Various places we have visited over the years had these figures...the dome in 2000..... Liverpool garden show, leaning on a railing looking over the Mersey. Some shopping centres too.

i dont have any either dorjac; but people keep asking if i have ~ i must look like a grandma!!

everyone would have a shock if there was any sort of image of me ~ im very glad to say there isnt!!

Sticki, you keep putting yourself down, you're lovely and don't look like a grandma lol:-)

several have said so recently so i must have aged since i saw you Ba!!
[thank you for your very kind comment]

Now we know what Heaven looks like.

Do you mean Sticki?:-)

Thank you for your lovely comment treetop

No Ba - the garden!!

Oh:-)

The garden is next open this Saturday - 23rd July.

A really lovely blog Sticki! This was a wonderful share of a really stunning garden..

thanks Flori ~ the next open day is 24th September if you are up this way.

You could all come here then...tent's still on offer:-))

and hire a coach to johns garden?

Oooh yes please, a SISters outing (we'll let Yorkie come too if she behaves herself) have a word with Tet, she's very good at organising this sort of thing:-))

Tet is on holiday, where is yorkshire?

In the North somewhere Sticki:-)

thank you geography graduate BA ~ only thing is you get a Bachelor of Science for geography degree! not a BA!!!

Now you know why I'm rather vague about the whereabouts of Yorkshire:-)

you know what or who i mean!!