Gems found in Herefordshire

Lovely blog Sticki, and beautiful photos as ever ~ thanks for sharing. Yes, love that grass, Stipa tenuissima, but my fave is the pond at the farm entrance :))

Two stunning gardens gardens Sticki, I loved both of them.

absolutely stunning Sticki, what a beautiful place to visit, so glad you put all these photo's on,

Sticki...that garden was heavenly! You must have had a great day. What a cheery sight this has been. I have lots of these plants just looking miserable!!!!!
Thank you for bringing a bit of sunshine into my day xx

Oh I am in awe. How beautiful are those places. Really enjoyed those pics Sticki. Thank you. Jx

Thank you ST a real joy and pleasure.

I have just nominated this to beautiful gardens

What a beautiful garden..It has everything.

Well, talk about pea green. Fantastic garden!!!!!

Mmm a lovely five mminutes just looking at your beautiful pictures of gardens to dream in, thanks for the tour Sticki;0)

Thank you everyone, they are lovely gardens arent they but they have had their fair share of rain too, like everyone else!

It was about 40 minutes drive from us, i feel very lucky to have such lovely places so near. Worcestershire is a very pretty county but Herefordshire is just something else, there is a real peace about it, an openness and a freshness, which is very special.

I really loved that grass Sheila, it captivates me. It was truly beautiful, thank you Scotcat.

For once I didnt put a picture of the cakes in, I was too busy photographing the garden [which was a very real pleasure] but there was an amazing array of truly delicious cakes. Herefordshire NGS do a recipe book but i spent all my money on the plants!!!

and next to Herfeforshire you can find even more beautiful Wales:)
I hope the weather is good next Sunday - as I want to go and see an open garden or two:)
Lovely pictures Sticki:)
Thank you for sharing:)

i hope its good then too kasy! thank you, i think you must be able to see parts of Wales from the higher parts of herefordshire.

Wow what stunning gardens. They are both amazing so lush and colourful. How on earth have they done it with the rubbish weather we've had?! Brilliant blog as always sticki. Added to favourites, be a good one to cheer me up next time the weather gets me down (so tomorrow lol).

What stunning, beautiful gardens. Thank you again for a lovely blog, Sticki!

beautifull blog and pics sticki, another i would like to go to, thanx for showing , so pretty :o))

Lovely pics there Sticki, nice big polytunnel but yes could do with a passion flower or two

What a treasure you found. It is a delightful garden and each photo makes it look better and better. The owners must be devoted to it and must love sharing it with everyone who visits.Beautiful!

Lovely picture does not look as though they have rain or slugs there.

Glorious gardens. Thankyou for showing these, it makes my heart glad to see these lovely places, especially in this depressing season.

Wonderful, really enjoyed looking at these Sticki

What wonderful gardens! And a nice sunny day for you to visit them too - perfect :o)

Just beautiful,Sticki..loved it all,and especially the pots down the steps by that wonderful barn...mmm,I have steps ! this is going on my Faves..I love it :o)

You do spoil us Sticki, taking us to some fabulous places, where we off to next??? :-)

many thanks everyone!

brian there were some really quite squelchy parts to the grass in both gardens they both said how awful the weather has been.

Stevie it was a great polytunnel but i did think it ought to have a passionflower!! perhaps you could sell them one!

Willinilli ~ a surprise!!! and very different!!

Oooh I love surprises :-)

its definitely different!!

Are you going to Mars?

it might look like it?

actually i have two ideas ~ havent decided yet!!

mars bar cake comes to mind!!

It Would !

;-)))

emm, Mars or the moon, decisions, decisions, Lol

mars ice cream is very nice!

I give up, good job your not diabetic!

Enjoyed this blog and looking forward to the next :-) J

thanks julie!!

not yet willi!!!

A lot of hard work has gone into those gardens. They're beautiful :o)

Fnatastic blog ST! love all your pics..specially like the wildlife pond. Brilliant thanks for taking us along :)

great blog and pictures.Looks a wonderful place to visit very nice:)))))

Those gardens both look superb, Sticki and you got some great pictures, as usual. Glad you had such a lovely experience.
We went garden visiting too over the weekend in Bolton by Bowland and Grindleton in Lancs. and had a wonderful time in glorious, unpredicted sunshine; so enjoyable was our visit that we went back on Sunday to see the gardens we hadn't time for on Saturday. These weren't in the NGS but were also opening for charities. I came away with a free tomato plant from one house and a huge Eupatorium - which the owner very generously dug out for me - from another, not to mention the huge injection of inspiration which has kept me outside till 10 p.m. every night since. So, I just want to echo your vote of appreciation for all those who open their gardens in this way. To all of you, thank you.

wow lovely blog Sticki, looks a fab place to go :-)

it was a really beautiful place hywel, i could have spent ages there, and i dont imagine they ever stop working on it ~ im sure they said something like 'we dont like bare soil'??

you're welcome pixi

thanks mark ~ it was and they made you very welcome too.

sounds like you had a wonderful time tuesday, have you got any pictures?

thanks surreylad, it was a real gem!!

No pictures, Sticki, as I still can't manage to upload anything, despite hours spent in the attempt. OH tried to help but he couldn't do it either. Very down about this. :( :( :( 3 sad frogs this time!

i like your frog pictures!!

why wont the pictures load tuesday ~ what does the computer say?

lovely blog, thanks, Sticki! beautiful pics of a stunning array of nature; I should think keeping it looking like that is a full-time job for a whole crew of people!

loved the densely packed flower borders in the first garden, 'a sea of plants', the grasses with the nepetas, the succulents on their stairway to heaven, and the pond and that polytunnel, even without its passionflower, peagreen here too.
english countrygardening at its best.
thanks very much for all the pics Sticki, into favorites.
did you find out how many gardeners worked that first garden?

Sticki, it says'incorrect format', so we amended, but still no go!

thanks fran, it certainly looks like a full time job to me!!

you are welcome resi, as far as i know it was just the couple who lived there who did the work ~ i will try to find out,

hmmm tuesday, sorry i havent seen that message before, ah it might be how you save the photo. if you go to where you save your photos on the computer then right click on a photo and select the edit option; resize it and then save it ~ but when you save it give it a name, then [and i think this might be the bit you particularly need] look underneath the line where you have saved it under a name and it gives options as to 'SAVE AS TYPE' ~ you need to select the JPEG option; hopefully that will work.

Hello Sticki! that is so heaven for me:-)))))))))))))))))

hello Junna, they are lovely gardens aren't they? and so fabulous that the weather suddenly changed, we have nearly non stop rain!!!

Stunning photos as always Sticki - especially the close-ups.

thank you rose, i like close ups [when i get them to work] they fascinate me!!

Thanks for the advice. It's really kind of you; will try but think we were saving as Jpeg already.

the only other option is to try making a smaller number of pixels, sorry dont know otherwise, the people that are good on the computers on here are stevietheterrible, meanie, pimpernel and bampy ~ im sure others are too but all of those have helped me sort things out in the past.

Everyone has said it all really - enjoyed it very much.

glad you enjoyed it steragram, its lovely to look at the blue sky again ~ dont think i have seen it since last sunday!!!

Thank you so much, Sticki. I don't know how to reduce the number of pixels but will see if OH or one of my boys understands. Failing that will ask for help from one of the members you mentioned.

if you right click and choose the option to edit, then when you get into that you should see the option to re-size, if you choose pixels, you may find the number is around 3-4000 so just change it to 999, then save the picture with a different name [by using save as] so you retain the original picture but also you have the picture which should be able to be uploaded, it can also be used for email like that.

Once again you have given us a wonderful day out and bought to life two very different but great gardens . Its lovely to share other gardeners passions and ideas especially when they so generously open their doors to us. I hope the weather is kind to the people of Fladbury tomorrow when around 20 gardens there are open to the public, looking forward to going and will take some pics. Thanks again Sticki.

''Featured on - beautiful garden pictures''

very nice sticki, another blog of the week, to go with your blog of the month, they just keep coming : )

I'm late again, but this was well worth waiting for. Its absolutely amazing. I couldn't say which part I liked the best as I loved it all! The grass in the first gardens were immaculate. They must spend hours and hours looking after it all. I've put this in my favourites so I can keep going back to have another look. Thankyou for sharing this, Stickie.

Another wonderful blog Sticki, such beautiful gardens. We used to go to Yellow Book gardens , what a fantastic idea, I wonder who thought of it? How did you wangle the sunshine and blue skies? We've got them here at the moment, so hoping to get some gardening done today:-)

Such beauty in these photos, and peaceful feelings I can imagine during your visit..Thank you, Stickitoffee for sharing with us!

you are very welcome stroller, how was fladbury ~ it sounds lovely!

stevie, thank you!!!!!!!

thank you rose, i couldnt decide on my favourite part either, but if i could choose a garden to spend time in it would be the first ~ it had everything i think!!

BA ~ i have no idea but blue sky makes everything sparkle

many thanks divot and welcome to GoY! yes you are right ~ particularly the first garden, was very peaceful.

How did I miss this one, beautiful English country gardens, and some stunning photography as usual.

oh, thank you DD, they were gorgeous gardens and it was incredibly lucky to be sunny that day ~ you could see they had problems with the rain [a few rather soggy patches you had to avoid!!]