I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many daffodils in flower. Wordsworth would have been in heaven if he’d seen them. In fact if it wasn’t for the fact they’re growing in open woodland I’m sure the yellow would have been visible from space. But I wasn’t in the Lake District “wandering lonely as a cloud” where I saw this golden host but in Dorset.
I’d been away for a few days and called in at Kingston Lacy, just outside Wimborne. Had I managed to get there a couple of weeks earlier the view would have been of about 6 million snowdrops, spreading from the original planting more than a century ago. A few weeks later and the scene would have been awash with bluebells.
I had been to Kingston Lacy once before -decades ago – shortly after the National Trust took over and to be honest thought it rather dull and uninspiring. It probably was. Today it is anything but and the daffodils and snowdrops were just an added bonus to what is becoming a real “must visit” garden.
Which English landscape garden is this? Some lesser known Capability Brown site? Or perhaps one by one of his contemporaries? Off the beaten track somewhere or just a hidden corner of a better known one?
Just a few questions as the introduction for today’s post.
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