April Blooms!!

The Avenue, Dyrham Park's West Garden

"Work is underway to transform Dyrham Park's formal gardens into a vibrant 21st-century garden with flavours of the past. The project is inspired by some key historical documents, including Johannes Kip’s 1712 engraving of Dyrham Park. Kip, a 17th-century artist, was noted for his illustrations of birds eye perspectives of the country houses and estates of the time...
 
“Some of our more regular visitors will have favourite parts of the gardens they will hope to see kept or protected from change,” said Senior Gardener Sarah Jones. “For example, the many tulips we have planted here - which make for a fantastic display later in the year.”...
 
The gardening team first “broke earth” in October 2015, cutting some new trenches in The Avenue... A team of around 60 gardening volunteers is now working on the five-year plan... The avenue, in which borders have been re-created, represents the historic west entrance to the estate, looking up towards the house and a watchful statue of Mercury (which was restored as part of the re-roofing project). 
 
Mrs Jones said: “The careful designs for the avenue ensure attention is brought towards this view, guiding the eyes through a tunnel like shape of manicured gardens and straight lines of the avenue’s long, rectangular flower beds. Thus creating a setting which reflects Kip’s engraving from the west entrance.” The National Trust
 

Back up to Dyrham Park this morning, this time to admire the wonderful flower beds in the West Garden. My tulips have nearly gone over now, whereas this lot are still blooming marvellous!!