The Dry Garden

Scarecrows

Knightshayes Court in England has an amazing number of scarecrows in the kitchen garden:

The White Rabbit

Alice

The Queen of Hearts

The Cheshire Cat

and bizarrely:

A Scuba Diver

The Most Romantic Garden in England

The ruins of a moated medieval castle are the centerpiece around which the gardens at Scotney Castle were created when the new house was built in 1837.

Another View of the Ruins

Fall Color

A Walled Garden

A Flower Garden in the Ruins

Such Beautiful Colors

I love the colors in this photograph of a bramble

Toadstools

When the Gardener and I visited Bedgebury Pinetum in England, I took photographs of these remarkable toadstools:

and this:

 
Fly Agaric

Although you sometimes see Fly Agaric in illustrations in children's books, it's poisonous.

 

Howick Hall

The Gardener and I have just returned from England where we visited several famous gardens including Howick Hall in Northumberland.

The Bog Garden, Howick Hall

I loved this notice:

Howick hall was the home of Earl Grey of tea fame and has the best tearoom I know. The food is excellent, the surroundings are elegant.

The Tearoom from the Outside

Keep the Raccoons Away

The Gardener and I returned from a vacation in England to find that the raccoons (or possibly the skunks) had eaten all the ripe figs.  The Gardener fitted an upturned flowerpot around the tree trunk and that has stopped the animals climbing up into the branches and feasting.