Woodland Folk: June 2011

Friday, June 24, 2011

Saturday 4th June 2011

On a very warm June day we took a picnic to Mottisfont Abbey in Hampshire, a National Trust property and home to The National Collection of OldFashioned Roses. This border was just inside the start of the walled gardens.

Within the 3 walled gardens were so many many varieties of roses plus lavenders, salvias, paeonias, philadelphus, sedums, foxtail lilies, crambe cordifolia etc etc: the scent was amazing and the beds and borders so lovely!

A lawned area within the wall: we had to exit in the end because the mix of heat and perfumes was overpowering Mike: he recovered over a New Forest icecream!

A natural spring rises out of the ground at "The Font" in the Abbey Grounds and the crystal clear water travels down a gravel bed through a shaded woodland area, eventually joining the River Test. And that water was so beautifully cold - first fingers, then hands and then a toe or two were dipped in!

Monday, June 20, 2011

Sunday 19th June 2011

B and D's birthdays and Mike and Roger's Father's Day - the card shops were doing well!!

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Friday 10 June 2011

A happy Mummy with Sophie aged 11 weeks: now doing an owl impersonation by looking around at EVERYTHING only to find her neck does not go right round!

Sunday, June 05, 2011

Sunday 29th May 2011

Farmer Richard, his buxom wife Grandad, his little girl Ellie and his little son Nina all put on their best clothes for a family day at Honeybrook Farm near Wimborne www.honeybrook.org!