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After California Dreamin' - heading home to Hampton Court
Lotusland near Santa Barbara - 37 acres of horticultural wonderNearly three weeks in California and thousands of miles later, I've visited more than 20 gardens during my stay here and loved every...
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Home from California heatwave and hotfoot from RHS Hampton Court ...
Ecover garden - gold medal and Best in Show - designed by Michael ChildsHome from California at teatime yesterday and up there with the crowds at Hampton Court Flower Show today .... high temperatures,...
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Wordless Wednesday - Memories of RHS Hampton Court
Conceptual Garden - I Disappear, designed by Arek LucShow Garden - Singing Tree, designed by Clive Mollart and Clive ScottSummer Garden - Willow Pattern, designed by Sue Thomas
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Oh I do like to be beside the seaside! Drop into Driftwood this weekend - a...
Driftwood is one of two Seaford gardens opening its doors for the NGS in Sussex this weekend and is well worth making the effort to see if you like to be beside the sea. This glorious postage stamp...
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Beside the seaside II - Sandgate Close, Seaford - open for NGS this weekend
If you're off in search of interesting gardens to visit this weekend, you simply cannot miss the two that are open for the NGS in Seaford, Sussex this Sunday - Driftwood and Sandgate Close. The latter...
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Wordless Wednesday - Splendid Suffolk - Garden stories to come!
Bressingham Gardens - the island beds around the Hall created by Alan BloomBressingham in bloomBottle display at Wyken VineyardThe "Hot" garden at Wyken Hall
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Summer flower and steam spectacular at Bressingham - a great day out for all...
Few gardeners can imagine the possibility of pairing steam trains with spectacular summer borders, but the combination really does work and solves the problem of a family day out likely to appeal to...
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Broughton Grange near Banbury - a walled garden with a difference and...
The unique parterre at Broughton Grange - designed by Tom Stuart Smith When Tom Stuart Smith was commissioned to re-design the gardens at Broughton Grange as a Millenium project for the owners, he...
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Garden rooms, old-fashioned roses and fine wine at Wyken Hall in Suffolk
The Quincunx at Wyken Hall, SuffolkThe charming and unusual four-acre garden surrounding an equally unique half-timbered and gabled manor house - Wyken Hall near Bury St Edmunds - is only a fraction of...
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A sneak preview of what's in store this week - Galloping Gardener recommends...
Scotney Castle - a moated ruin with wonderful grounds - highly recommended for summer picnicsMy galloping has been somewhat curtailed recently due to family commitments, but I'm planning to get back on...
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Helmingham Hall Gardens - a moated paradise in Suffolk
Helmingham Hall in Suffolk - a moated 16th century property with 10-acre gardenA late spring, followed by a heat wave in July have done little to dent the charm of the gardens at Helmingham Hall in...
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Coton Manor - a garden for all seasons in the heart of England
Coton Manor is a 17th century house built of local stone, overlooking 10-acres of gardensIn my first garden foray to Northamptonshire this week, I was able to visit two very different, but...
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Wordless Wednesday - A walk at Scotney Castle in Kent
Scotney Castle is open daily at this time of year - well worth a visit, particularly in the afternoon sunlight.
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The Galloping Gardener © Recommends Best British Gardens - A Directory
The following is a list of gardens in the UK and Europe that I've visited personally since I started this blog in 2009. It's growing all the time as I continue to visit more gardens. The list is by no...
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Titsey Place, Surrey - wondrous walled gardens nestled in heart of North Downs
The walled garden at Titsey Place is filled with flowers throughout the open seasonTitsey Place nestles in a corner of Surrey, close to some of the most visited gardens in Southern England including...
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Goodnestone Park - a modern parterre and a 'borrowed landscape' in Kent
Goodnestone (pronounced 'Gunstone') is an 18th century Palladian mansionGoodnestone Park - a fine brick-built Palladian style mansion, built at the turn of the 18th century - sits amid 14 acres of...
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Tremenheere, Cornwall - is this the new Garden of Eden?
Tremenheere has fantastic views over Mounts Bay and St Michael's MountWith views like this over St Michael's Mount (above); a hillside plot above Mounts Bay; and a tract of land that includes hills,...
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A fantasy landscape in Norfolk - Will Giles' Exotic Garden - guaranteed to...
Exciting tropical foliage abounds at Will Giles' Exotic Garden in NorwichWhen you visit the Exotic Garden at the heart of Norwich in Norfolk, you'd be forgiven for thinking you've accidentally wandered...
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Britain's best October gardens - where to see wonderful autumn colours in the...
Sir Harold Hillier Gardens at Romsey in Hampshire - open throughout the winter monthsThere are many signs that autumn is in the air, with low-lying mists rolling off rivers and the all-too familiar...
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Happy 80th birthday to John Brookes - influential garden and landscape designer
John Brookes is to garden design and landscape what Terence Conran was to household interiors – so major has his influence been on the way we have come to perceive the space outside our homes in the...
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