Taken at Virginia Water in the Valley Garden, Windsor Great Park Crown Estate (c) Jane Risdon 2019The Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park, Crown Estate (c) Jane Risdon 2019The Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park, Crown Estate (c) Jane Risdon 2019The Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park, Crown Estate (c) Jane Risdon 2019West Green Gardens and House near Hartley Wintney, Hampshire. (c) Jane Risdon 2018The Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park, Crown Estate (c) Jane Risdon 2019West Green Gardens and House, Near Hartley Wintney, Hampshire (c) Jane Risdon 2018West Green Gardens and House, Near Hartley Wintney, Hampshire (c) Jane Risdon 2018Winkworth Arboretum, Godalming, Surrey (c) Jane Risdon 2018Winkworth Arboretum, Godalming, Surrey (c) Jane Risdon 2018Winkworth Arboretum, Godalming, Surrey. (c) Jane Risdon 2018Winkworth Arboretum, Godalming, Surrey, (c) Jane Risdon 2018Winkworth Arboretum, Godalming, Surrey (c) Jane Risdon 2018Spider’s web on a garden gate at Savill Garden, Windsor Great Park, Crown Estate (c) Jane Risdon 2018 West Green Gardens and House, Near Hartley Wintney, Hampshire (c) Jane Risdon 2018 – Opera in the garden with refreshment tents and picnic tables.
Winkworth Arboretum and West Green House and Gardens are National Trust properties and if you are not a member you can pay an entrance fee. The Savill Garden is part of the Crown Estate and has an entrance fee for non members, payable at the entrance.
I really hope you enjoy my wanders and will come back again. I featured West Green House and Gardens in a blog a few years ago which was taken up by West Green’s owner and added to their website. The history of the house and gardens is really interesting. Since then The National Trust has taken over the garden.
Jane, your photos are beautiful. I love such quiet, romantic landscapes, parks and gardens that make you feel like you’re in a fairy tale.
Greetings from the beautiful Rhine-Highlands / Germany
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Rosie,, thanks so very much. Happy you enjoyed them. I love the Rhine. I lived in Germany twice. Both times in the Ruhr valley but the countryside was always lovely. Yes, parks, gardens and the countryside here is lovely too. Glad you enjoyed my photos, do look back through my archives (right side, scroll down) for more. Have a safe and happy week. x
Fiona, I am so happy that they have. Do let me know if you go. Feel free to look around my archives (lover right of screen) there are many other NT places and others which you might enjoy and will inspire you to visit. Let me know. Have fun and I look forward to your photos. Stay safe and well.
Thank you, yes we will definitely visit them and I shall take a look at your posts covering visits to other places. It’s great to hear first hand about places that I haven’t been to before. Thanks again and I hope that you are staying safe and well too.
Yes, being restricted is such a pain and I hope as soon as things get better you can visit some of these wonderful places. I have lots I still need to write up and too many photos…I take hundreds and picking a few to use is so hard. We need to stay positive and hope that soon things will change and the horrid masks will soon be history. Hate wearing them. Keep well, and let me know if you venture somewhere nice. xx
This is just the kind of wander that my husband and I enjoy. What is the twisty tree in the fourth photo down? It reminds me of a banyon tree, but I don’t think it is?
Liz, I love walking and always end up walking way too many photos. I tried to see the name tag on the tree but it was hard to get to. Next time I go I shall look again and see if I can read it and let you know. I love the way it looks so tactile.
Phones and digital cameras make the taking of way too many photos way too easy. In the film days, when we came to the end of the roll, that was it. No more pictures. I’ll look forward to learning what the strange twisty tree is called.
Liz, I know what you mean. It used to be so expensive buying and developing film, though often we got two copies of all photos, even blurred ones! I wish I had had a phone camera when on tour in USA/Europe and SE Asia with bands etc., because time was tight and often the schedule did not allow for shopping for film and so I missed photographing so many places. If I had had a phone camera I am sure I would have managed a quick click even from a moving tour bus or limo. Oh well. Now I have a computer filled with thousands of images as well as dozens of photo albums.
Great photos, Jane. Especially like those of Savill Gardens. Spent many happy hours there and in Windsor Park when I lived in West London. Thank you. xx
Nature never bores me and always uplifts me. I love to just wander around and enjoy the trees, sky and sounds of the birds. Peace. Glad you like them. taking my mind off other things. xx
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Jane, your photos are beautiful. I love such quiet, romantic landscapes, parks and gardens that make you feel like you’re in a fairy tale.
Greetings from the beautiful Rhine-Highlands / Germany
🌺🦋❤🌺
🙂 Rosie 🙂
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Rosie,, thanks so very much. Happy you enjoyed them. I love the Rhine. I lived in Germany twice. Both times in the Ruhr valley but the countryside was always lovely. Yes, parks, gardens and the countryside here is lovely too. Glad you enjoyed my photos, do look back through my archives (right side, scroll down) for more. Have a safe and happy week. x
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These photos are beautiful and have inspired me to want to visit these National trust places
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Fiona, I am so happy that they have. Do let me know if you go. Feel free to look around my archives (lover right of screen) there are many other NT places and others which you might enjoy and will inspire you to visit. Let me know. Have fun and I look forward to your photos. Stay safe and well.
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Thank you, yes we will definitely visit them and I shall take a look at your posts covering visits to other places. It’s great to hear first hand about places that I haven’t been to before. Thanks again and I hope that you are staying safe and well too.
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Yes, being restricted is such a pain and I hope as soon as things get better you can visit some of these wonderful places. I have lots I still need to write up and too many photos…I take hundreds and picking a few to use is so hard. We need to stay positive and hope that soon things will change and the horrid masks will soon be history. Hate wearing them. Keep well, and let me know if you venture somewhere nice. xx
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Nice photos! I favor the doorway one. I am a sucker for doors and windows.
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Oh me too, and old walls, chimneys and gates
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They seem to have more character back then.
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Yeah not so uniform or perfectly bland.
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Wow so nice photo..😮
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Thanks so much. I am happy you enjoyed them.
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Lovely!
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Thanks Jenny, I try. x
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You’re welcome, Jane.
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This is just the kind of wander that my husband and I enjoy. What is the twisty tree in the fourth photo down? It reminds me of a banyon tree, but I don’t think it is?
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Liz, I love walking and always end up walking way too many photos. I tried to see the name tag on the tree but it was hard to get to. Next time I go I shall look again and see if I can read it and let you know. I love the way it looks so tactile.
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Phones and digital cameras make the taking of way too many photos way too easy. In the film days, when we came to the end of the roll, that was it. No more pictures. I’ll look forward to learning what the strange twisty tree is called.
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Liz, I know what you mean. It used to be so expensive buying and developing film, though often we got two copies of all photos, even blurred ones! I wish I had had a phone camera when on tour in USA/Europe and SE Asia with bands etc., because time was tight and often the schedule did not allow for shopping for film and so I missed photographing so many places. If I had had a phone camera I am sure I would have managed a quick click even from a moving tour bus or limo. Oh well. Now I have a computer filled with thousands of images as well as dozens of photo albums.
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I know, and we kept the blurred ones anyway because, hey, we paid good money for those.
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Yep got loads of blurred photos too. Joy.
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What marvelous pictures, Jane. I love English gardens.
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Glad you enjoyed them. I take hundreds in a year and never know what to do with them.x
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Great photos, Jane. Especially like those of Savill Gardens. Spent many happy hours there and in Windsor Park when I lived in West London. Thank you. xx
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Thanks, glad to oblige. Guess you would find it much changed. I did. But for the better. Thanks for retweets xx
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Such lovely ‘photos, Jane! Thanks for sharing them. They’re a welcome reminder of beauty during this hard time.
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Nature never bores me and always uplifts me. I love to just wander around and enjoy the trees, sky and sounds of the birds. Peace. Glad you like them. taking my mind off other things. xx
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