A Little Piece Of Parcevall

We took a field trip today thanks to our tutor Jo Makin, she used to be head gardener at Parcevall hall, a wonderful arts and crafts garden dating back to 1927, so she managed to sneak us in for free. The hall itself is now a religious retreat and I can well imagine how soothing to the soul it is to gaze out and contemplate life, when faced with the natural wonders that surround it in this peaceful Wharfedale valley. We had permission to take seeds and berries home with us for propagation, so I chose some Leycesteria formosa berries as the bracts look fabulous at this time of year, fingers crossed that they grow.

Leycesteria formosa

Enough of this rambling on, I will let the pictures speak for themselves.

"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful"
Edgar Allan Poe