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Photo Hunt 2018 No. 11 - Garden(s)

Kathy (Trekcapri)

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This week’s Photo Hunt No. 11 – Garden(s)

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Waiting is a part of the Travel experience, but as we all know the “waiting” is always worth it in the end.

Upcoming Photo Hunt Themes:
Photo Hunt No. 12 (Week of March 25, 2018) – Painting
Photo Hunt No. 13 (Week of April 1, 2018) – Fountain(s)
Photo Hunt No. 14 (Week of April 8, 2018) – Famous Places
Photo Hunt No. 15 (Week of April 15, 2018) – Beautiful Light

A beautiful Garden with a view in Ravello on the Amalfi Coast in Italy.

 
These are the wonderful Drummond Castle Gardens in Scotland.
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And they are even more impressive than the pictures!
 
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Inside the privately owned Torrigiani Gardens in Florence. You can write to the owner and you might get a tour, as I did. I think it was E10. the family has owned it for hundreds of years, and the ones there today are divided as to how to use the property. They more or less said the family was nearly broke
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when I was there in 2015. I hope they didn't have to sell it off.
 
The delightful Crook Hall Gardens in Durham. Crook Hall is a medieval building with Jacobean and Georgian additions which nestles among the trees above the banks of the River Wear. It is just a short walk from the city centre but completely hidden from the hustle and bustle of Durham. It is a wonderful place with secret gardens seamlessly flowing into each other.
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The Mirabellgarten in Salzburg, Austria dates back to the late 1600s, and are one of the featured locations in the movie the Sound of Music.
 
No flowers this time... This is Benmore Gardens on the Cowall Peninsula in Scotland, visited on a dull damp September day. Over a third of the hardy conifer species in the world can be found growing here. Visiting made us realise just how effective trees, especially conifers, and shrubs can be be in giving a garden interest throughout the year.
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Port Logan Gardens have been described as one of the most exotic gardens in Britain, and are in an idyllic position on the Mull of Galloway, in south west Scotland. The warming effect of the gulf stream combined with the protection from winds in a walled garden and woodland shelter belts, allows many sub tropical plants to thrive outdoors.
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One more garden before this thread finishes. This is the delightful Brynbella Garden in North Wales. It doesn’t have a web site and there are no brown signs to it. The only indication of the gardens is a small notice on the gateway saying ‘Entry to HHA members and friends only’. It was worth our yearly membership just to visit these.

The gardens are less than ten miles south of the popular tourist resorts of Prestatyn and Rhyl, but it feels a million miles away.

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