Great Dixter Gardens
Through a friend of a friend we managed to get a nice day out at Great Dixter gardens. There is a web site that tells you all about it here. A fantastic old house and formal gardens, and as it was closed for the season, there was just us and the gardening crew there.
Winter in gardens is an interesting time. You can see the structure of the garden without being distracted by all the pretty colours around. There was still a bit of colour around to look at too. And some great topriary. Must be quite a job to prune them all.
An unexpected highlight was watching a guy up a tree. That might not sound that exciting, but when they’re chopping down the tree that they happen to be up at the time, it’s more than interesting.
Sitting in front of the roaring fire in the 15th century solar after a nice luch was so cosy and nice. Almost sleep inducing.
Oh! And I have a new found respect for, and perhaps understand attraction to, Dashounds. They’re actually quite cute. And solid bloody dogs too! And I think the thing that surprised me most about them was just how fast they can get up stairs! In fact, I think they moved fastest when climbing them. Somewhat odd!
Now that we’ve seen it in winter, we’re definitelly going to have to go back to see it at it’s best in spring/summer.
And huge thanks to all the guys there for letting us wander around like we owned the place.