I went home just for this weekend to find the garden bursting with colourful peonies, roses and foxgloves, a robust looking herb garden and a ripening vegetable patch waiting to laden the kitchen table with broad beans and fresh basil. Yum! All in all, Stanborough was a lovely, sunny retreat from London (much helped by mum and her cooking and motherliness of course). Mum and her boyfriend Pete have been working hard on the house and garden to bring it up to scratch before they open up the place (as a B&B, retreat, local venue for theatre, live music and courses) this autumn and it looks likes it's paying off!
I love all the potted plants on the steps and the painted benches in the backround are a new, elegant addition.
The herb garden above and mum's clever bamboo pyramid for her sweet peas.
Peonies are one of my absolute favorite flowers, and i'm loving the different shades of pink with the odd smattering of summer yellow in these beds at the front of the house. So beautiful.
my goodness, stanborough is putting its best foot forward!
ReplyDeletep.s. the bumblebee was my favorite..........