Wandering Savill Garden

James and I have been suffering colds these past few days. Although James seems on the mend I think I'm a little way off. The pace at work is picking up. I'm spending some time in Nottingham - about 3 hours north roughly between Birmingham and Cambridge. I had to spend yesterday preparing for a design workshop. What probably should have taken 4 hours took twice as long.

So today we wanted to get out of the house and though that a late morning trip to Savill Garden sounded good. We've been there a few times now and enjoy seeing the gardens at different times of the year.

Its about 10 degress outside so we all rugged up. Being damp on the ground, James also donned his "wellies" (gumboots for the rest of us Aussies!). He also took his soccer ball for a kick.

As we're now late in Autumn most of the leaves are now on the ground. So an immediate difference I noticed was the skeletal trees. There were mounds of compost on the garden beds. Oh - and mole hills. Lots of them! James and Merrilyn collected various leaves and berries.

James favourite fountain in the Queen's Jubillee garden was off. Apparently they turn off all the outside fountains in winter (freezing water comes to mind). He still managed to throw a few coins in!

The gardeners have been busy pruning back most shrubs and flower beds. Hopefully we'll be here to see it next spring.

We finished off with lunch in the new visitor centre and restaurant. James was exhausted by all the walking and his cold. He's been asleep now for the past two hours. Time to wake him up.

Take a peek at the photos here.