Things To Do In The Cotswolds #2

See Some Snowdrops

I haven't been able either to garden or to blog for a long time, for a mixture of family and health reasons. I haven't visited many gardens either, but in February last year, I went to Colesbourne Gardens near Cheltenham to look at the snowdrops. The gardens are well worth a visit if you are ever in the area, though they are very popular in the snowdrop season, so do be prepared for crowds.

A large part of the gardens are woodland, underplanted with vast swathes of snowdrops.









There's also a lake walk, though it is not very easily accessible for disabled people, with a steep slope at one end and difficult steps at the other. I did in the end manage to get down there, though, and it was worth the effort.











Near the house are some areas which have more colour, with patches of Crocus, Aconites, and Cyclamen among other early spring flowers.









But most of the gardens are given over to snowdrops.

Waterperry Gardens

I hadn't realised it had been over a year since I last posted here, and it's much longer since I blogged about my garden. I haven't managed to do very much in the way of gardening over the last couple of years either, partly because we are still looking for a gardener to clear our garden so we can start planting. My ME has not been great lately and my cognitive function is now very limited, so I've had to concentrate on doing more vital things than blogging, and after I've done those I don't have any brain left to write blog posts.



We have managed to visit some lovely gardens though, and as I've been sitting around with a cold for the last couple of weeks and not up to doing much else, I thought I'd clear some of my huge backlog of photos. These were taken at Waterperry Gardens, near Oxford, last September. They had an exhibition of sculptures through the gardens, made from metal and stained glass, and based on different plant forms. I don't normally like "things" in gardens, but I loved these, and the way the light shone through them. My brain isn't functional enough to think of anything else to say, so I'll let the photos speak for themselves.