Voted #1 in my dreams
flowerborders are so lovely
Beautiful flowers at the Mottisfont National Trust site - a memorable picture of a bee on a purple flower resembling a dandelion, and apparently this is sometimes its name - although also named Allium Gladiator.
Visit some of the Great National Trust sites and their gardens
What wellbeing can do for you! Try a walk just looking at flowers, lots of beautiful flowers.
The National Trust caters for many tastes. It is not that cheap to be a member but offers some great days out.
We first joined when visiting Culloden in Scotland, and it is much cheaper to join in Scotland with al the benfits of an English NT subscription. Since then, some years back we have stayed members most of the time, and a favourite site to visit is at Chartwell.
Chartwell is where Churchill spent a good part of his life, and is very beautiful, and the grounds are immmense. It is not the most accessible site, but it does try very hard to make things accessible. There are the usual numbers of volunteers who make you very welcome, and share their knowledge of the place.
Another great find was in Romsey, at Mottisfont, in Hamspire, where an old abbey latterly a manor and now an National Trust site on the River Test. It has its own sinkhole supplying fresh water which is cool.
The site is also lovely, and the volunteers will tell you all about its history, of which there is plenty, including the rebuilds over the centuries.