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Back in 2012, almost to the day, we visited the garden at Wheatley House. That day, nine years ago, there was a lot of road work going on, with numerous, complex diversions in place. Today, for our first NGS garden this year, we decided to revisit. Fortunately, the road works have been finished and it was a relatively easy drive.
The garden is not huge but it has an amazing array of beds. It’s also amazing in that it seems to have completely ignored the vast quantities of rain we’ve had over the last month.
Not that there was any rain today. In fact, as we discussed with the lady who made the glass sculptures, it was like a real summer day today.
We had a chat with the owner. She said that her husband has been ill, so she’s responsible for things like walking the dogs and tending the garden. Though she does have some help with the garden.
We were admiring the artworks hidden among the beds and she pointed out one she’d rather like to buy. It was of a bird, possibly a penguin, leaning back, stretching its neck towards the sky. It was in a black stone and was beautiful.
I rather liked the big, colourful totem pole thing with lots of different objects piled one on top of another. It was delightfully crazy.
The totem is on the left, and I also really liked the blue body kneeling to the right.
It was a lovely visit. Sadly, we didn’t have any cash for cake (after paying the entrance fee) because, well, we’re just not used to carrying cash. In Sweden we never used it and before we left, during lockdown here, everything was pre-booked. I need to make sure we have ample supplies of loose change for weekends.
Even so, the lovely people running the tea and coffee stand, gave us a free tea. Mirinda thanked them by buying two cushions and some cards from the craft stands inside the barn.
All up, another excellent NGS Garden.
