A visit to the field of dreams

This reminds me of the summer we never had!

Love it - so colourful - looks heavenly - I see the stormy clouds brewing in one picture too

What a fabulous place and such wonderful photos of it too Sticki. So warm and summery looking. Many thanks for sharing them on this dismal evening :o))

Sticki
Thats beautiful,I believe they have to plow it all before they sow all the seed,
bit of artistic licence as well few things there i have never seen in an english meadow

thank you drc, paul, lily and brian; i think they did plough it all ~ in fact i remember thinking it was quite strange for the flowers not to be amongst grass; sadly there has been a bit of trouble in the past few days ~ someone has damaged the hedge that protects the meadow.

i agree bjs ~ i was a little surprised at some of the plants.

im sorry some of the pictures look a bit similar ~ as you can imagine I took a lot ~ its hard to pick them out but when i looked through them [bit bigger size than you see on the blog] these seemed to represent the views fairly well.

thanks again

So that's the meadow! Thanks for showing us how beautiful it is, Sticki. I shall have to try to get there next year. :-)

This is lovely, Sticki, you cam almost feel the warmth of a Summers day by looking at the colourful flowers. ... Thanks for sharing your pics ... :o)))

Isn't it gorgeous! It's amazing how many cultivated flowers they've planted in there and it still looks wild! The wee Mexican hat and the zinnia are really bright, and sunny, it's lovely of you to put this on! Thanks Stick!

Great blog and loved the music to go with it! :))) Lovely!

What a fantastic place Sticki! Thanks for sharing.

I love this, makes me feel like a little girl all over again. My dad used to take us on walks through a meadow to a wood when we were small and I can still see where we went...just!...its mostly an housing estate now [:-{

Mmmmmmm ... lovely! Just the right place to sit and dream. Nice to see the beehives there - we need all the bees we can get!

That was just beautiful, and with the music too ... it was really nice :o))))
I enjoyed it so much, and I've put it on my favs.
I could have fallen asleep in that meadow I think lol.
And I loved the sky. I like a dramatic sky - it's much better than flat boring blue.
And I should think those bees enjoyed living there too :o)

Thank you everyone, I thought you would be interested to see the bee hives - surprisingly there seemed very few bees there - perhaps the storm had sent them to hide?

I love those flowers, I love the photographs, thank you for putting them up Sticki they are fab pictures.

Such lovely pics. So many colours, and so good for the local wildlife also. WIN,WIN!

Thank you olive and Alex, glad you liked them.

Absolutely beautiful,Sticki..so full of lovely flowers,and colour..Thanks for that :o))

Absolutely Stunning Sticki

thank you bloomer and yorkshire ~ i think you would have liked it ~ its one of those places thats hard to photograph.

well you did a real good job with your camera,

i tried!! would be a nice place for a picnic!!

well I have a lovely picnic basket,

and i have a lovely cake recipe

what cake recipe,

scuse me for speaking, but I said what cake recipe,

sorry
i went to the shop!!!
the coffee cake one i did before but i also have a bookshelf of recipes!!!

well if you don't mind no more shopping until I have this cake recipe,

just gonna check out recipes on here and see if its on,

fantastic sticki thankyou for that lovely blog i would love to walk through that field of dreams.have you heard the song by Eva Cassidy it's beautiful. :o) it's called fields of gold.

Stick I can't find it,

Brilliant blog, Sticki, and so glad you were able to visit the beautiful field of dreams. Is it open to the public all summer? Thanks for sharing your lovely photos so that we could all enjoy seeing such a happy place!

I will have to look yorkshire ~ sorry, wont be long.

Tulsalady I love fields of gold ~ good idea ~ didnt think of that one.

I think it will close by wednesday sheila ~ says on the website that it is open for july and august ~ not sure what will be out by now

http://barcrofthall.co.uk/Documents/Barcroft%20Wild%20Flowers%20Catalogue.pdf

its here yorkshire:

http://www.growsonyou.com/stickitoffee/blog/13665-an-attempt-at-the-ultimate-coffee-and-walnut-cake

Thanks. :))

:-)

That cheered me up on this miserable weekend Sticki....cheers :)

bit wet here too scottish, glad you liked it. its cold as well ~ im sitting wearing a fleece jacket!!

Us too! Even had the fire on earlier!

I found it Sticki, thanks, very cold up here and windy with the odd shower.

I don't know how i missed this blog Stickie.I did see it on here before and went to the article in the paper, but weren't you lucky to actually be there.You have took some really lovely photos and it was great looking at this again,thankyou.

it sooooo gawjuss wish i cud be there !! stunning ............ i saw it on t.v the other week , so lovely . ;0))))

stunning pics stickie, i love wild flower meadows so summery even when we havent had one lol :o))

thank you rose, cristina and sanbaz

i think it is quite amazing that it survived at all after the summer we havent had!!
they arent sure what will happen to it next year ~ will be interesting to see!!

Absolutely lovely phots Sticki...1, 7, 17 and 20 are my favourites....wonderful! I have never seen a meadow like that in my whole life! Perhaps I will one day.

did you see the newspaper article karen ~ i loved it cos they detailed each flower.

i was lucky it was about an hour and a half away from me so was able to visit, glad you liked it. i think wild flowers grow best on chalk??
but you have the machair up on the west coast ~ thats worth seeing!!

Gorgeous pics.I saw the article in the paper online...lovely that they detailed each flower :-)

lovely article wasnt it ~ wish i had got the paper now but the online article was just as good ~ lovely pictures in it. thanks Amblealice

Goodness me! I had never even heard of the Machair, and when I googled it...WOW! now I shall have to make a trip west to see it! Isle of Lewis ....hmmm....thanks Sticki!

you hadnt??? and you a scot?? sorry karen i just assumed you would know. its lovely and although it has less flowers than this its so much more natural and of course has the back ground of an ocean!!!

if you go karen ~ please take lots of photos and do a blog!!!

Yes, I will! I'm no Scot Sticki, I'm a Yorkshire lass, always will be! I bet my OH (who IS a Scot) won't have a clue either. In fact, I bet most of the people that live here don't know of it! Nobody undervalues the Highlands and Islands quite as much as the lowland Scots!

oh, :-( i love those highlands and islands

Yes, they are beautiful, although I've never been to the Outer Hebrides. So far I've visited Skye and Arran...had to drag OH both times! He's not a fan of open spaces...;)

..and I've friends in Aberdeen who go to the Lake District every year and sneer at the idea of visiting the highlands..honestly, I'm not kidding..perhaps it's just the people I know, but hardly anyone I know here ever goes to the Highlands, and I've friends in England who come up two or three times a year to walk the munroes! Funny isn't it!

i never knew that ~ very strange.
skye is half way there but arran is quite different.

have you seen geranium dad's latest blogs on his holidays??

Oh yes, aren't they wonderful?

the second one made me cry ~ i dont know why it gets to me ~ i just love the place.

Sticki, you must have a really special connection with Scotland. :)

you would think i was born there or something but no im a real southerner and so was my dad ~ who also loved the hebrides and scotland

That really is a piece of heaven, Sticki, and a real joy to see..As always, your photos are stunning..Thank you for the music link too...

thanks flori ~ not too far for you? maybe a visit next year?

Just seen this wonderful blog and am awestruck by the sheer beauty of it. I had never heard of the place BUT I HAVE NOW, hurrah! I will put it on my notebook for next year. Your photos were fab. as always and thank you so much for a lovely blog.

you are very welcome breda ~ you always say such nice things.
it wouldnt be so far from you!
they have a web site ~ not sure ~ perhaps they have a mailing list ~ ready for next year?? i found out about it in a national newspaper.

Thanks again Sticki. The music was gorgeous too, it's one of my favourite pieces. Oh, and I would like to say that I'm not really a music buff for I only really enjoy light opera - well mainly - However I loved Nessun Dorma so much I learned the lyrics in both Italian and English and dear old Pavarotti was and always will be my most revered tenor.

Im most impressed. Bryn Terfyl is one of my favourites.

Hi, me again. Welcome tip about the web site. I will look for it. Have you noticed this site is a lot faster since they did the work on it. I still love it and spend rather too much time on it. Ah well!!!

Yes, I love him too and he is a lovely man. Mmmm!

mine is faster too ~ i must have got used to the slower timing cos i keep being surprised!!
one day i might do some housework ~ but its more fun on here.

Just to strike a sour note (not a pun!) did you read in the papers that some idiots drove their vehicles through the fence and into the field? Luckily there wasn't much damage done. I couldn't beleve it. Sheer vandalism! :-((

yes, i heard about that because the field of dreams people sent me an email. i couldnt quite work out what had happened or why. it was early in the morning while the owners were on holiday!!! i understood they had wrecked part of the hedge ~ didnt know about the field.

I heard these meadows described as shattered rainbows recently...The pictures you have posted show why.

What a lovely analogy pimpernel, so long as it doesn't mean broken!

Beautiful photos. I am clearing an area at the back of my garden and this has decided it for me. Going to give it a go as a wldlife - wildflower area.
Already have some log piles for the hedgehogs , frogs and newts so will get some wildflower mix as October is the ideal time to make a start.

I had an email from these people to say that they are now harvesting the seeds - I think (?) if people go to help they can have some seeds too

Would anyone like further details?

I hope you will put pictures on inverglen - it sounds a lovely thing to do.

spectacular view, WOW:-))))))))

it was really pretty Junna, i think they have grown it again this year but we have had so much rain it might not be doing so well???