April was a colourful month in the garden, the highlights being the fruit blossom, magnolias, tulips and wallflowers. For the first time we saw clusters of creamy yellow flowers on a bay tree and the rosemary bush was full of those bright blue flowers that we love - the bees too. I've kept the orange lily indoors for now and the variety of schlumbergera known as the Easter cactus is flowering.
We went to Wentworth Woodhouse Garden Centre. As well as the garden centre there's a walled garden coffee shop and restaurant, a delicatessen and a large gift shop. The historic gardens within the grounds that were originally designed in the 18th century for the estate owners, the Fitzwilliam family have been restored and maintained by the present garden centre owners.
ornamental prunus (Pink Parasol)
camellia (Cupido)
camellia (Silver anniversary)
a semi evergreen climber (Akebia quinata)
a crab apple (Red Sentinel)
a lithodora (Heavenly Blue)
There were some beautiful plants and terra cotta pots in which to grow them, wonderful garden ornaments and structures if you have a garden big enough to install them.
bacopa (gold), a million bells/calibrachoa (Trixi Petticoat),
helichrysum (gold) lobelia richardii (white),
There were a few stalls selling produce from local outlets. The cheese stall had an array of specialist cheeses. The stallholder has a shop in Holmfirth (famous for Last of the Summer Wine tv series). We took some cheese home, beautifully packaged, a cheese with walnuts, a strong Cheddar and a pot of goat's cheese curd which we've enjoyed at lunch times.
Wentworth Village