This weekend Professor Tanya Byron talked about family time in the Saturday Times. Top of her list were some very basic bonding behaviours such as walking together as a family, chatting and looking at nature. So our walk around the Stourhead estate in Wiltshire fitted the bill perfectly. We had intended to marvel at the […]
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Stourhead Revisited: The Beauty of Autumn Colour
Last year we visited Stourhead, Wiltshire, one of the best landscape gardens in the country. It was so beautiful we couldn’t resist returning again this year. There are over 600 species of trees and shrubs in the landscape gardens assuring a fantastic long-lived autumn display. The expectation was for a good spectacle of autumn colour […]
Autumn Colours at Stourhead
We hadn’t planned to visit, but after a whole day of rain we needed to get out for an autumn ramble. Helpfully the evening before Radio 4’s PM programme had interviewed the head gardener from Stourhead. The passion he displayed for the garden was infectious and helped us to decide that a visit to see […]
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