I've already written about my Garden Media Guild trip to the David Austin Roses in Shropshire, and I really was delighted by the gardens there and beguiled by certain roses.
But after a delicious lunch and gossip with other guild members (we talk a lot) it was time for another treat.....a look around David Austin's private garden surrounding his home.
There's always something so inviting about a gate ajar and a glimpse through to what lies beyond
From the back of the house your eye alights first on the water and then the statue in the distance draws you deep into the garden.
Like all good gardens, you can't see everything all at once, you must seek and then you shall find...
While we were walking around , David Austin came into the garden to meet us...
and it was a pleasure to meet him. This after all is the man who has created over 200 English roses and developed the National Collection of roses here. A man who developed his boyhood passion to a business with three generations of his family working as world leaders when it comes to rose breeding. What a legacy...
As you would expect there were plenty of roses in his own private garden...and Constance Craig Smith, who organised our trip, was busy photographing just a few of them.
Making my way around the garden towards the front of the house, I slipped through here
and found this charming piece, sculpted by David's late wife Pat
and then found two peacocks strutting their stuff
and to wander around the roses one last time.
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