On Saturday, the hottest day of the year so far, I'd decided to go and look round the Open Gardens event in Eye just a few miles from home.
I bought my programme and map from the church - nice and cool in there - but then it didn't take me long to realise it was far too warm for walking the streets!
So just a few photos of the hidden gardens of this small town from the roads around the old castle mound. All beautiful and made me very envious!
And in the last garden I visited a swarm of bees had just flown in and settled under a wooden arch - I've never been close enough to a swarm to take a photo before.
Then I headed back to the car stopping in at the Co-op to buy one of the new Magnums I'd seen advertised on TV. Can't say I noticed much coconut flavour but the mango sauce bit was delicious. It's called the New Magnum Sunlover!
Coconut flavour ice cream & mango and passionfruit flavour ice cream with a mango and passionfruit sauce, white chocolate and coconut flakes.
Very nice it was too but even better to get back home to sit under the parasol and have a long glass of cold water!
It seemed a shame not to go round all the gardens because owners put in a lot of work to make their gardens look beautiful but it was just too hot.
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Sue
Lovely gardens but as you say, too hot to browse and enjoy the plants.
ReplyDeleteThere were so many gardens further out from the centre but just too hot to visit them
DeleteWhen the sun is hammering onto your head and you start to wilt, I agree, you don't enjoy staying out in it long even when there are lovely gardens to view. It could have been worse and pouring with rain, and at least you had an outing. The photos you took show much-loved gardens - I like the way the plantings spill out over the gravel in the 2nd photo.
ReplyDeleteI like the gravel and plants spilling over too I wondered how many weeds come up through the gravel
DeleteOpen garden days are always a feast for the eyes, shame it was too hot for you.
ReplyDeleteThe heat doesn't usually bother me but I couldn't find my sunglasses and should have had a hat!
DeleteWe agree re heat and the mango flavour. Coconut didn’t add anything to it did it?
ReplyDeleteI didn't even realise it had coconut in until I looked on line !
DeleteI really felt for my friends who opened their gardens for Petworth Secret gardens on Sunday - it was just too hot. We were in east Kent last week and wearing four layers including a woolly one so a shock to the system to arrive home on Saturday to 28 degrees. Had another swim in the sea yesterday - still a bit chilly but warming up! Sarah in Sussex
ReplyDeleteYes I think it is the change from cold East winds to heat in a week that made me really feel it
DeleteThe gardens look lovely, such a shame it was so hot though. I've wondered about those Magnums, I think I might leave it. I've seen many posts this morning on swarming bees. I wonder what is going on and if it is a good sign?
ReplyDeleteA period of cold weather followed by hot weather is causing it. This is the swarming season but the weather has sort of pushed it all into one and the bees were getting impatient. It is neither good nor bad, it is just nature.
DeleteA swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon!
DeleteI hope someone collected the swarm to make a new colony
That swarm of bees is impressive.
ReplyDeleteIt was. The poor garden owner was having to warn everyone as they came into the garden. Although swarming bees don't often sting.
DeleteWhat a shame the heat was too much for a proper tour of the open gardens, I do love a good nosey into what other people have done behind their garden fences and hedges ... and the chance to buy a few cuttings.
ReplyDeleteThere have been a LOT of bees swarming in our town, all the local beekeepers have been busy collecting the swarms from all sorts of places, and one guy said he was investing in two more hives at £200 a pop to contain any more that might happen as he is worried everyone else will be running out of room for them too.
Our village has an open garden day but its rarely perfect weather for it - too hot, too cold, too windy or pouring with rain.
ReplyDeleteI am sitting here in the cool house, wondering if I dare venture out. I must try that new Magnum. I wonder if the local shop has got some in.
ReplyDeleteThe magnum would have to be more coconutty for me to like it as I'm not that keen on mango!
ReplyDeleteThat must have been quite something spotting that swarm of bees, fascinating.
Alison in Wales x
It is amazing what some people create in their own private gardens. It is a true labor of love. The bee swarm is quite something.
ReplyDeleteLovely private gardens.
ReplyDeleteI do like the picture of the swarm. How interesting.
God bless.
Once I was walking in a preserve, and near bird watching tower, I kept hearing a loud buzzing. It sounded electrical, but this was in the middle of the woods, near to a swamp. I finally located the sound. It was a bee tree. If you put your ear to it, you could hear the buzzing of what sounded like thousands of bees. They were busily flying in and out of the tree the whole time.
ReplyDeleteI love looking around gardens. What a shame it was just a bit too warm for comfort. Mind you, that magnum sounds so good!
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We take part in Open Gardens each year in our "village" - which is actally part of a big city!
ReplyDeleteWe get quite a bit of interest as its almost entirely veg and meadow with a couple of neat paths mown through to show the meadow bit is meant to be that messy!