I was pleased to learn that nearby Flintham Hall was opening for charity as part of the National Garden Scheme, and that I’d get a chance to have a look at another part of the estate’s garden. We’d visited in April for the Bluebell walk and that was amazing, so my expectations were high.
I was not disappointed.
I mean, what an enticing entrance.
And after turning the corner and spending quite a bit of time admiring the flowering wisteria, as well as the alliums and tulips planted beneath it, and the plentiful hawthorn blossom we headed through the wrought iron gate into the walled garden.
My first view of the walled garden was pretty special too.
We followed the path that led to the glasshouse, past many bushes of peonies whose buds looked ready to pop. In the glasshouse - which was also to die for - was this pastel blush coloured flowering amaryllis.
What a glorious space.
I finally left the glasshouse, which had a swimming pool at one end, to discover a non-native animal eyeing up the waterlilies in the pond, or maybe something else?
Next we headed towards an area with fruit trees which were clearly old - and shaped into a fantastic goblet. It looks, like me, that the estate will be expecting a fair few apples later in the year too.
Though their roses (and peonies) are way ahead of mine, but like the peonies before I was happy to stop and admire the blooms.
This was our exit from the walled garden, and passing another gnarly and twisted wisteria which to me the trunk of it looks like the face of an animal (if you look closely enough!) and the exit was just as thought out as either of the gates I showed at the start of this post, but I wasn’t prepared for what came next.
How beautiful, dreamy and enticing is this mown path through the cow parsley? I think I want to move in…