The Last Days of Summer - RHS Garden Wisley, Surrey (Part 1)

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I'm listening to Bob Dylan's 'Street Legal' as I write this blog. Perhaps not his best album from the 1970s but certainly not a terrible album that's for sure. It's actually pretty good. Anyway, it's playing right now as I sit down to write. It has been a while since I written a blog. The idea being that I venture outside when the weather is good and enjoy some of Britain's finest gardens and natural spaces and blog about them. Or write about landscape design ideas as they come to me. But day to day life can be a busy equation. Or, to be more honest with you, it's been too hot! 
Here's the thing, I don't really like south-east England in the summer time. I find the humidity surprisingly repressive and as a result I tend to retreat indoors for the most part, which is what I've been doing these past few months. It was a hot one this year even by my Australian standards. However, toward the end of summer Britain miraculously boasts some of the best weather you could imagine. It's almost dreamlike in its perfection. And so come early September south-east England boasted some of this pristine atmospheric magic. It was a day you would be a fool to waste.
My friends, Alan and Jean, were planning on visiting RHS Garden Wisley. Knowing that I've been wanting to visit the gardens myself, and that we're RHS members, 02/09 was a perfect day to drive out to visit Wisley Surrey.
"You'll notice something about the people here today," Alan remarked as we got out of the car. "There will be a feeling of resignation and acceptance, somewhat. This is the last day of summer in England." And he was right; there was an air of melancholy in the air. We were all glad to be at RHS Wisley as the weather was truly amazing, but after this, in the late Sunday afternoon, this really was the last of the summer days . . .














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