Our Christmassy Weekend

It's very pretty and must have taken ages to make, I wonder how they keep the flowers looking fresh, they can't water them all every day.

I think Cotehele is one of the NT's most magical properties because it is so ancient and not on the huge scale of a lot of their other bulidings. We've been a few times and at Christmas too. Thanks for the lovely reminder of a special place.

I love Cotehele too, though it is a long way from Yorkshire.

Thank you everyone. It is one of my favourite N T houses too but the road leading to it is not nice to drive on!!

Hywel the flowers are grown especially for the garland and are dried after they are picked. Statice, honesty and exochrysums ( the yellow daisy like ones) were mainly used for this garland.
25,000 in all!

Thank you Wildrose, I had a feeling they could be dried flowers, they are very pretty.

Lovely garland Chris … good use of Honesty ‘pennies’.

A beautiful House,Chris,and the decorations are beautiful..A nice end to your weekend too :o) xx

Another great house.I haven’t been there, but it has been on TV,
showing them making the garland ( about a year ago, I think it was). Might have been on Countryfile.

Thanks Hywel, Sheila, Bloomer and Feverfew. Your comments were so appreciative.
I must stay at home now for a while and get some jobs done!!!

Lovely to see a close up of these pictures Chris!
They are so beautiful and someone had a lot of patience, not to mention a skill of flower arranging. xx

What a beautiful place to visit, Chris! Lovely to see that "traditional" rustic, Christmas decor and style!

Thanks Rose it was a wonderful sight although a few years ago they used frosty colours and I think that was my favourite so far.

Kate thank you - I too do like 'rustic' so Cotehele really appealed to me. I do like things to look natural.