It is Peak Rose week at Mottisfont. You fall into a world of petal and perfume and wander around overwhelmed by the beauty of it all. Today it was busy but not overcrowded and there was plenty of room to stop and stare, to be amazed. It is a great English garden, a sensuous experience of colour and texture, a place to return to in your dreams. I wish with all my heart that I had not waited this long to see it for the first time.
Many thanks to my lovely friends Caroline and Helen for organising this day out.
Many thanks to my lovely friends Caroline and Helen for organising this day out.
Wow, those rose gardens look incredible. I can almost smell their fragrance through the pictures :)
ReplyDeleteThe photographs only show a small part of the rose garden. It is a huge walled area densely packed with roses in beds, around pillars, along swags, trained against walls, climbing up through trees. It is extraordinary.
Deletegorgeous. and your favourite is?.............
ReplyDeleteI loved Anne Boleyn which has a peachy pink exterior and warm apricot interior. Also the Rosa mundi even though I would not select a striped rose for my own garden.
DeleteIt looks beautiful. Gardens can stay with you forever, can't they? I was taken to Hidcote as a chiild and it's always stayed with me. Diktynna x
ReplyDeleteThat is so interesting - I immediately tried to remember gardens from my childhood and although I can remember our garden at home I am not sure that I can remember any at all until I went away to university. Unless you count imaginary gardens like 'The Secret Garden'.
DeleteHeavenly!
ReplyDeleteIt was. I wish that the day had been warmer so that we could have enjoyed the fragrance too but the blooms were perfect.
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