Veddw – A garden in Wales featured on Alice’s Garden Travel Buzz.
Veddw Overview Photo Copyright © Alice Joyce
Link to ‘A Parade of Garden Benches’ on: Bay Area Tendrils
Veddw - Photo © Alice Joyce
Link to my blog: Bay Area Tendrils
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Primulas © Alice Joyce An ideal garden holds you in its embrace.  Cothay Unicorn © Alice Joyce Friends have heard me say that I left my heart in Somerset, a pastoral county in the South West of England known for its gardens – Tintinhull to Lytes Cary to Hestercombe & East Lambrook Manor.  Cothay Stone Seat © Alice Joyce Yet, another Somerset held me in thrall with the romance of its garden rooms, sylvan meadows and bog garden: the lush landscape and splendid 15th century Medieval house of Cothay Manor. Fine topiary lends a formality to the landscape of Cothay Gardens, as do myriad vignettes revealed as you move from one perfectly composed garden room to the next.  Cothay Topiary/Walkway © Alice Joyce
 Cothay Manor Gardens Urn © Alice Joyce Embellishments – a stone bench, a classic urn, a unicorn – act, as understated focal points, pleasing to eye, and soothing in their elegance and placement.  Cothay Manor Rock walk © Alice Joyce Springtime at Cothay Manor: the meadows appear like dance floors for arrays of wildflowers and tulips, rising up and moving in time with the wind. And primulas! Brilliant candelabras, skunk cabbages, tree peonies, and greater celandine emerge in the Bog Garden, and throughout the wild-appearing woodland that is anything but wild.
Cothay Manor Garden Room © Alice Joyce Designed in the 1920s by Reginald Cooper, friend to Lawrence Johnstone of Hidcote Manor and Harold Nicolson of Sissinghurst, the gardens “have been redesigned and replanted within the original framework of yew hedges.” Lyrically memorable, the 12-acre Cothay Manor Gardens estate holds a place in the book: 1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die : I contributed to the entries, albeit, did not have the good fortune to be assigned the gardens at Cothay Manor.  Cothay Manor Pool/Succulents © Alice Joyce  Cothay Manor Gardens Rhodo. © Alice Joyce Seattle Area A sneak peek at an annual lavender festival held on the third weekend of each July on the North Olympic Peninsula, Washington State, U.S.A.
The city of Sequim (pronounced S’kwim) boasts the title of the Lavender Capital of North America, with a growers association encompassing an organization of farmers who specialize in the fragrant herb. Farm tours are a highlight during the festival’s 3 days, when visitors wallow in the perfumed gardens, amid an atmospheric haze of blooming lavender varieties scenting the air. Culinary Program: On Sunday, cooking demonstrations by local chefs will take place at each of the six Farms on Tour. Expect enlightening instruction on the culinary uses of lavender.
 Purple Haze Fields - Sequim Lavender Festival photo In downtown Sequim, a Street Fair features some 100 vendor booths, with entertainment, food court, wine and beer garden. Friday, Saturday & Sunday: Sequim Lavender Festival: July 16, 17 & 18 – 2010
Visit the web site or phone 877-681-3035 for information. Photos: Sequim Lavender Festival – Sequim Lavender Growers Association: www.lavendergrowers.org
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