The weather continued in the pattern of coolish nights, foggy mornings and afternoon sun through the weekend eventually breaking down on Monday. Monday turned out cloudy and mild with rain on and off all day but not really amounting to much.
We’d been away for a couple of days to visit the late Geoff Hamilton’s garden, Barnsdale in Rutland and a visit to the Great Central Railway Gala on Saturday. I’d had some doubts about visiting Barnsdale Gardens so late in the season. I thought most of the flowering plants would be finished and any allotment areas would be well past their best by the beginning of October. In the end we decided to visit in any case.
I hadn’t given a thought to the trees giving the garden its structure and that they would now be turning into their spectacular autumn colours.
It was warm and sunny as we slowly made our way around the gardens.
There were still some roses putting on a late display. It turned out to be the best of our days out as Saturday was much cooler and cloudier. Walking around the gardens I could almost hear Geoff explaining how he’d built the paths and garden furniture as well as why he’d decided to use the plants he had.
I think we might be making some return visits.
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Happy memories of watching Geoff's common sense gardening on a B&W portable TV all those years ago - he inspired me to be an organic allotment grower too. His son turns up on TV occasionally and sounds disconcertingly like his father !
ReplyDeleteWe had lunch in the little cafe at Barnsdale and in the corner of the room a TV had a DVD of one of Geoff's programmes playing. Magic. The advice still wasn't out of date.
Deletelovely photos with great colours I loved Geoff`s style of gardening
ReplyDeleteIt was a bit of a tricky day for photos as it was sunny but the sun was low in the sky. the temptation was to only point the camera in one direction away from the sun. I think his approach to gardening was great too
DeleteLovely photos amazing colours of Autumn...
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