This year we have been on two "Royal" trips starting with -:
Buckingham Palace
On a wet Sunday morning we caught the coach to London where we
had been invited and were privileged to visit the Queens private gardens.
By the time we had coffee in the palace!!!
The rain had stopped and we took a leisurely but informed tour of the gardens
with a guide who took great pains to point out everything worthy of note.
The gardens are, overlooked at several points and noisy from passing traffic,
but are quite informal,rather like a large cottage garden with rose beds and a camommille lawn
Highgrove
Our tour guide Daphne Butler, was delightful and very informative.
Some people on the tour had seen the stumpery when it was created, and thought it superb now with all the Hosta's which were massive and without too many holes.
The gardens were in general quite informal with ponds and sculptures, the walled garden was the vegetable plot with hedges of Berberus as they had problems with box hedging blight.
Highrove house is not very large and has a formal front garden in the front.
We finished the tour in the Turkish garden which was really nice and formal it was reproduced from the one exhibited a Chelsea flower show.
Sadly we were unable to take photographs at either Highgrove or at Buckingham palace, but the memories will stay for a long time.
Many thanks to Kay & Adrian for arranging everything
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