Flowers of Britain

In my undying quest to make Iain a gardener (or, at least, appreciative of gardening), I try to expose him to flowers wherever possible. Here, he studies an old garden rose at King John's Lodge.


Pretty...

Here's a closeup. I love this kind of rose so much. Cabbage-shaped, many petaled, grown in sprays, tons of flowers - what's not to love?


A more modern rose, in the formal gardens at KJL:


But flowers of great beauty appear everywhere in Britain, not just in big, expertly-tended gardens. Here, growing by the side of Bart and Tony's driveway, was a lovely little flower growing against a blue/lavender background shrub. Gorgeous.


And when we ventured around Cambridge, Charles found this lavender hedge along the side of an entrance at Queen's.


Back in Milton Keynes, we toured a park devoted to peace, including a Buddhist pavilion and a Japanese Buddhist temple. More on that later. But in the garden there was this sweet Asiatic lily.

In some ways, England is just one big garden. Everywhere you go, you find flowers offering shape, color, and fragrance to brighten the lush green of the parks and hedges.