Another beautiful day was spent gardening! In someone’s else’s
garden!! Although mine is crying, sobbing, choking, drowned in
weeds, off I went with a friend to walk through some of Bucks
County’s prettiest and most original gardens. I took so many
pictures that I’m going to have to divide my reporting into three
posts. Here is garden number one:
Remember –you’re in Bucks County Pennsylvania—and we’ve
got wonderful old barns. After walking down a long driveway, you
come to this great old barn–
PA barn ©booksandbuttons
PA barn doors ©booksandbuttons
And, with one more glance back at the barn:
PA stone barn ©booksandbuttons
We head down a charming path, headed by an
old hitching post, to the house and gardens.
path to house and gardens PA house tour ©booksandbuttons
The house was built in 1812. O’Half and I and our two children lived in an old
PA house similar to this for a couple
of years. Its history made it seem
so solid and safe.
PA house built in 1812 ©booksandbuttons
And, swinging around, we take a breath in to exclaim about
the garden!
PA conservancy tour June 2014–don’t you just love a grassy path? ©booksandbuttons
We’ll not talk a minute while we look at the flowers!
simply masses of white astilbe! ©booksandbuttons
and pink astilbe, too©booksandbuttons
poppy ©booksandbuttons
a lily—which variety? ©booksandbuttons
And then a water garden in a sunken tub with a water
feature and a floating water lily blossom—lotus?–
no, water lily.
small water garden with water lily blossom ©booksandbuttons
a garden is fun, er, work!©booksandbuttons
the raised vegetable beds like the gardens of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello . . .©booksandbuttons
even the birds like living at this garden–zoom in to see little thatch of twigs sticking out—hear the tweets? ©booksandbuttons
And nicest touch of all in this garden is a long pergola with a door to a secret garden at the end? Thanks for walking with us . . .
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Oh, what a lovely garden! And that barn! Fantastic!
yes, that barn is pure Pennsylvania