Today's the day

DB is 88 today, a pity the weather has returned to rain, we were lucky yesterday, the rain held off all day. It did wake me in the night battering on the windows.

I am tired after  our marathon walk yesterday, so we are going out for lunch and will then come back and have a quiet day.

We have been over for breakfast, it seems a popular place to come to for Sunday breakfast, lots of people in as well as those 'in residence.' Several very large vehicles in the car park.

I must say the staff are very pleasant and obliging, they found us extra hangers and we went over yesterday and managed to get our lap tops connected to the wifi. There are one or two niggles but on the whole its a  very nice place to stay and comfortable.

The rain on Friday has battered a lot of the plants down, this beautiful peony has suffered quite badly

We are not the only eople who use a pot for a pond!!

Lovely pale pink and white peony.

Excellent use of a window in a hedge, the Church next door to the garden.

The borders on either side of the grass were nepeta, commonly known as cat mint, cats love to roll in it and I have to admit it smells like cat pee!!

DB's delight a veggie garden.

Another glimpse through a gate into the walled garden.

Bits of the garden grass had been allowed to be turned into small meadowed areas for wild life.

They raise all their own plants and the ones they sell, one of the many glass houses dotted about, this one full of geraniums.

One of my favourite plants allowed just to go wild. Foxgloves. This is the first year we have had foxgloves, lupins and delphiniums grow in aour garden. The mulch we had put down last year deterred the slugs and snails.

Lovely use of a sink, I suspect there is an old belfast sink under that concrete. The tine flowers on the left are an alpine campanula. I have been trying to get a pot of this plant for years. Unfortunately they did not have one in the sales area.

So thats the end of the garden tour. I could have taken hundreds of pictures, it was beautiful. So large that even the huge number of people visiting were not obvious till you got to the tea garden. I could also have spent a mint in the plant sales area, we would have needed a trailer to get them all home. One thing I did forget to photograph as a banana tree complete with signs of bunches of bananas developing.