I suspect garden visits will be a recurring theme throughout the summer blog posts: considering we are definitely not gardeners we're very keen on visiting other people's.
When we were wondering a couple of weeks ago where to go to see lots of flowering azaleas and rhododendrons ( hence the abortive visit I wrote about to Gargunnock!) I can't imagine why we didn't immediately think of Branklyn, where we went last August and said 'we must come back in the spring to look at the azaleas'. Somehow we didn't.
However we did go there towards the end of April and it was beautiful. Naturally I took lots of photographs, but I've confined myself to five. They grow so many of our favourites plants there.
acer canopy
deutzia
rhododendron
their famous blue poppies
and of course a magnolia.
We topped off our visit by having a light lunch in their excellent cafe and a quick visit to the small shop. The staff in both places were fabulous, which was true the last time we visited as well. Definitely a Good Day Out.
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