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It was so sad to see recent footage of Dutch flowers being thrown away due to ongoing problems with sales in light of the Coronavirus crisis. In the UK, plant centres & independent nurseries face weeks of uncertainty during this crucial growing time. If you are thinking of doing some garden improvements during lockdown do remember that many smaller nurseries really need your support & it’s worth seeing if they offer delivery. Anyway, I digress. This lovely photo of Dutch tulip fields was taken a couple of years ago during a trip to Keukenhof - another COVID casualty. #covidcasualty #dutchfields #holland #tulipfields #tulips

I visited Cottesbrooke Hall & gardens in Northamptonshire last year - have you been? This charming little cottage surrounded by Camassias was on the walk down to the Wild Garden. 💙 Cottesbrooke is particularly interesting as so many garden designers have had a hand in making the gardens special. 💚 Geoffrey Jellicoe was the first of many designers commissioned at Cottesbrooke in the 1930s; he actually made the biggest change by rearranging the entrance to make the approach more formal. 💚 The beautiful statue walk has been designed by Arne Maynard & features statues by Peter Scheemakers. Arne Maynard has also had a hand in redesigning other areas of the garden. 💚 James Alexander Sinclair and Angel Collins have reinvigorated the double herbaceous borders on the Terrace and the tulip-filled Dutch garden respectively. 💚 Cottesbrooke is definitely a garden on the ‘must return when all this is over’ list! 💚 I blogged about this garden after my visit last April, you can read about it here: https://gardenvisitoruk.com/2019/05/14/cottesbrooke-gardens-northamptonshire/ #cottesbrooke #CottesbrookeHall #Camassia #Cottage #BlueFlowers #bluecamassia #NotBluebells #WoodlandGarden #SpringGarden #GardensToVisit #NorthamptonshireGardening #GardensVisiting #VirtualGardenVisiting @cottesbrookehall

Bryan’s Ground in Herefordshire is the home of David Wheeler & Simon Dorrell who have created a beautiful garden surrounding their Arts & Crafts House. This is the Canal garden, where 30 apple trees are set within their own square of Iris sibirica ‘Papillon’. The rest of the garden is equally stunning, set out in rooms & walks around the house and extending into the romantic Cricket Wood where in spring, lacy cow parsley froths abundantly beneath an avenue of white Poplars. #bryansground #Canalpool #Orchard #WaterGarden #BeautifulGarden #GoAwayCoronavirus #ABeautifulGardenEveryDay #GardensToVisitWhenTheVirusIsOver @bryans.ground #virtualgardenvisiting

Stunning blush pink camellia for you today. #staypositive #goawaycoronavirus #camellia #pinkcamellia #pinkflower #floweroftheday #flowersofinstagram #pretty

Continuing with my theme of beautiful gardens I have visited, these are some of the tulips at East Ruston Old Vicarage In Norfolk. Established in 1973 by Alan Gray and Graham Robeson the 32 acre garden is divided into rooms which demonstrate clever and exuberant planting. Surrounded by open arable farmland, the gardens (which contain many exotic & unusual plants) are protected from harsh onshore wind by a shelter belt of Monterey pine trees. The tulip display is refreshed each year with innovative colour combinations. This is one of the first gardens I visited before starting my blog so the photo is quite old! #eastrustonoldvicaragegarden #Tulips #NorfolkGarden #TulipFever #TulipDisplay #TulipGarden #GorgeousGardens #BeautifulGardens #GardensIHaveVisited #Gardenvisitor #botanicalpickmeup #postitfortheaesthetic #tulp #tulpen #botanicalphotography

One of my favourites, magnolia and cherry blossom against the blue sky of RHS Wisley. How flippantly we took the privilege of being able to jump in the car and go and visit beautiful gardens.Stay at home, stay well, garden visiting can wait until this is all over. #Blossom #BlueSky #GardenVisiting #StayHome #VirtualGardenVisiting #Magnolia #CherryBlossom

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Links to the gardens featured in this blog

Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
Blenheim Palace
Blickling Estate, Norfolk
Bodenham Arboretum, Worcestershire
Bridge Nursery, Napton, Warwickshire
Brightwater Gardens, Saxby, Lincolnshire
Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire
Chilworth Manor, Surrey
Chippenham Park, Cambridgeshire
CPH Garden show, Copenhagen
Dar al Hossoun, Taroudant
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
East Ruston Old Vicarage, Norfolk
Easton Walled Garden
Felley Priory, Nottinghamshire
Gravetye Manor
Great Comp Garden, Sevenoaks, Kent
Hall Farm Garden, Harpswell, Lincolnshire
Hall Place and Gardens, Bexley, Kent
Hammerwood House, near Midhurst, Sussex (NGS)
Hatchlands Park, Surrey
Hauser and Wirth Gallery and Garden, Somerset
Hole Park
Hortus Bulborum, Limmen, Holland
Keukenhof gardens, Holland
Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens, Surrey
Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire
Le Jardin de Cactus, Lanzarote
Little Court, Crawley, Hampshire
Little Mynthurst Farm, Horley, Surrey (NGS garden)
Lowder Mill, Haslemere, Surrey
Morton Hall Gardens, Worcestershire
Nymans Garden, Sussex
Overbeck's, Salcombe, Devon
Painshill Landscape Garden, Cobham, Surrey
Petersham Open Gardens
Petworth house and garden
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
RHS Hyde Hall, Essex
RHS Rosemoor, Devon
RHS Wisley, Surrey
Rockcliffe Garden, Gloucestershire
Sheffield Park
Shere open gardens
The Jellicoe roof garden, Guildford
The Old Rectory, Bletchingly open for the NGS
The Picton Garden and Old Court Nurseries
The Savill Garden
The Secret Gardens of Sandwich, Kent
The Walled Garden at Cowdray, Midhurst
Thenford Gardens and Arboretum, Northamptonshire
Thorp Perrow Arboretum, Yorkshire
Ulting Wick, Essex
Vann, Hambledon, Surrey
Wakehurst, Sussex
Walmer Castle, Deal, Kent
Wappenham open gardens, Oxfordshire
Waterperry Gardens, Oxfordshire
West Dean Gardens, West Sussex
Wollerton Old Hall Garden

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