garden98011's Blog

FYI-I wrote this while in England, but was unable to download the photos, so I saved it until our return.  The photos are in my album:

 My sweet husband and I are in England, we went to the show Friday-amazing.  It was difficult to restrain myself from purchasing both heavy garden items and plants.  We went into the city yesterday to celebrate my birthday and I almost came out of my skin watching thousands of people carrying their purchases out of the show grounds.(they sell off at 4pm on the last day).  My husband had dinner plans to celebrate, but I could not help myself-we ditched the plans and went into the madhouse. OH MY - it was overload-if only I could sneak plants back to the USA.....Thankfully, my sister-in-law has a tremendous garden, though she is not really a gardener (-yet).  We bought great plants for her garden-many were given to us as well!  We lugged them all back to Reigate on the train and spent my birthday evening planting our treasures.  My SIL & family were at the opera, so we surprised them this morning.  Their garden was a show garden at Chelsea years ago, the previous owners purchased the whole thing and had it installed (the display gardens are handled like that-ahhh)!   

We've also visited Hampton Court & Nymans, both of which have lovely gardens as well.  England's landscape is picturesque, their history is fascinating.  My husband & I joked that brick masons must have their hands full here-so many beautiful brick buildings/roads/fences to maintain.

In addition to garden tours, many hours were spent at several museums, but we barely scratched the surface.  My DH has visited his sister many times over the last thirty years.  Since this was my first  time in the UK, DH graciously let me select the daily events.  It was a treat to spend time perusing the museums.  We really enjoyed walking through Nelson's famous ship(the Victory) and we will definitely return in 2010 to see the Mary Rose on display after the preservation process is complete.  

Enjoy the photos~Andrea