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Thursday Thoughts – Arundel Castle

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Arundel Castle was built in the 11th Century by Roger de Montgomery. With its pinnacles and towers, it looks more or less out of a fairy tale. In many ways it was a different castle than the first three we visited. I want to take you to some of its most interesting features.

Arundel Castle is perhaps most famous for its Stumpery – a garden made out of old tree stumps and ferns. I immediately fell in love with it, and got some ideas for my own garden too. (Where I already have some fallen trees with planted climbers.)

Another wonderful scenery was the wild flower garden, which reminded me of our wild flower fields up north, close to the mountains. I wish I could have a garden like that!

If you look closely, you can even find a young moor hen with its extremely big feet and toes. It was busy pruning itself and staring down into the water. They are such funny creatures, and this one seemed not at all afraid of people.

I think I will save some pictures from the gardens as well as inside the castle for another post. Hopefully you enjoyed the tour – thank you for walking with me!

Thursday Thoughts – More from Great Dixter

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As this was my favourite house and garden on the tour, I will post some more from both the garden and indoors. The interior was very special, and the windows amazingly beautiful.

On entering the house, the light from the many windows and the open architectural solution made for an immediate love. In the header you can see the second floor and some more modern architecture.

I loved the seemingly wild and random, unorganized looks of the garden – even if I knew there is a design behind it. For more facts, please visit Jude again!

The nursery is a must see in every garden – and maybe buy a little something…which I of course did! Thank you for walking with me – hope to see you in my next garden walk too.

Thursday Thoughts – More Close-ups from Sissinghurst

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May I treat you to another gallery of beauties – cannot resist…

Another of the many lovely lilies to finish the Thursday!

Thursday Thoughts – Great Dixter

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When we left Sissinghurst that day, I wondered how any garden would be able to match it. But, Great Dixter did. Great Dixter is a house in Northiam, East Sussex, England. It was built in 1910–12 by architect Edwin Lutyens. The original Northiam house, dating from the mid-15th century, was acquired by a businessman named Nathaniel Lloyd in 1909.

Lloyd and Lutyens began the garden at Great Dixter, but it was Lloyd’s son Christopher Lloyd, a well known garden writer and television personality, who made it famous. The garden is in the arts and crafts style, where the planting is profuse, yet structured, and has featured many bold experiments of form, colour and combination.

The garden is currently managed by Fergus Garrett, who worked closely with Lloyd up until his death in 2006 as Head Gardener and introduced a number of innovations into the planting scheme.

I hope you enjoy the variety of this garden in my short gallery! For species and other facts, please visit Jude again!

I am sorry to say I haven’t even tried to find the names of all the flowers, but, Jude will know.

They are all glorious. The house and gardens are my number one from this week.

There will still be more gardens to come…