Visiting the house was not on the agenda, but we noticed that it was guided tours only, which would have been a big downer had we so intended. For some reason, I find guided tours of such places terribly tiresome. I have to be very - unusually - keen to go through with it. BH thought that it was probably down to shortage of trusties to guard the treasures. From which I associate to the fancy bookcases there, full of books, probably mostly without much interest, which no-one ever gets to look at as touching the treasures is strictly forbidden. As the girl in the donkey film said to the miser, what on earth is the point of all your money? See reference 1.
But the flowers were in fine form. Splendid display of foxgloves at entry, a flower of which I am fond but with which we have not had much success at Epsom. Even less with lupins.
Peony bed in very good form, with the red peonies interplanted with tall blue alliums.
Delphiniums in good form.
Roses in good form.
A bit late for the irises, which were more or less over. Should have got to them a couple of weeks or so earlier.
An interesting circular bed of various kinds of low thyme, mostly in flower. Which might be something that would work on a smaller scale, perhaps in a Butler (or perhaps in a Belfast) sink, but I can't see us getting around to it.
An ancient wisteria, not in flower or even particularly large, but notable for the size of the trunk. Put ours in the shade.
The first visit noticed since that at the end of last year noticed at reference 2. Not been to Hampton Court much this year either, with the last visit in March, while the last visit to Wisley appears to have been in February. What is going on?
Reference 1: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2017/06/bresson-two.html.
Reference 2: http://psmv3.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/for-record-2.html.
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