In a Vase on Monday: Greenway House

This bowl was catching the light beautifully at Greenway House (Agatha Christie’s holiday home) in Devon.

I visited on a glorious spring day at the time of the Camellia Festival and completely fell in love with the place. You can see more posts about it full of camellias, in the drop down list top left of the page.

The garden is huge with wonderful meandering paths giving views of the River Dart

One of the entrances to the Camellia Garden

And looking up –  a view of the house and the most spectacular magnolia

You can even stay there in the South Lodge

which gives you free access to the grounds after the visitors have left

and this is the view of Dartmouth

A white magnolia covered with lichen caught my eye

and wouldn’t you just love to have a greenhouse like this one!

It is a wonderful place – visit if you can!

Joining the others for the In a Vase on Monday party.

Stourpaine Walk

Sunny Sunday!

A walk around Stourpaine, a friend and I were walking the paths of our ancestors.

The larks were singing the sun was bright …

First we stopped off at Compton Abbas

a peaceful spot

this rhododendron was showing off magnificently

we saw yellow butterflies – could they have been Yellow Brimstones? in the churchyard at Compton Abbas

a font by the door

the Bible has been there all that time

sunny haze and ploughed fields, the crop cycle beginning again

lunch at a pub

the ambience delightful, the food – not so much!

Stourpaine

storm damage, my have the winds been fierce this winter

Victorian lych gate

doodle inspiration

an extraordinary name caught our eye – no relation

this font is so plain it has been sent to a curtained corner!

I am not religious but I love the history that churches hold

the village

cute house with lovely, not too formal, topiary

a grumpy looking little ‘Thelwell’ pony

and then for a walk on Hod Hill  …….