Holiday bits
A few random pics from the holiday
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Waterlilies
While at the gite in France, we took just one day trip (we basically spent two weeks sat in the shade of a large oak tree, reading) - this was to the "Jardin des Nenuphars", Latour-Marliac, at Le Temple sur Lot, a few minutes from Villeneuve-sur-Lot. This is where hardy waterliliy hybrids were first grown and from where Monet bought the lilies for his garden at Giverny. They house the French national collection.
A lovely place, really interesting (and with a good cafe), although the greenhouse containing the exotic/large lilies was unbelievably hot and humid - it took me a fair while to recover from just a few minutes in there!
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Abbey House Gardens
Sunday was the last of this year's clothes-optional day at Abbey House Gardens in Malmesbury. Not the best of days, but at least it was reasonably warm. The gardens perhaps weren't at their spring/summer peak but it was still good enough to get some decent shots, with some particularly good roses.
The photos are completely work safe!
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Jekka’s Herb Farm
On Friday, we went to Jekka's Herb Farm just outside Bristol. The business is generally mail-order only but they open up to the public on a few days each year - there was even a bus full of Dutch people on a garden tour.
We've been a few times in the past, and it's an interesting place with a variety of photographic opportunities - and there are always plenty of bees around.
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