The Old Vicarage Garden, East Ruston

A picture paints a thousand words and I've taken enough

photo's on my recent visit to The Old Vicarage Garden

over at East Ruston to give War and Peace a run for it's money.

The gardens were created by Alan Gray and Graham Robeson

and, even after many years, they are still very much a work

in progress with some new marvel being added all the time.

It isn't so much a garden as a whole series of beautiful

outdoor spaces each with it's own theme and all of them

interconnected.

I have to admit that this was my first visit and I should have

gone with someone rather than being let loose all on

my own because I could barely suppress my squeals of

delight, and on occasion didn't, as I wandered from place

to place just following my nose in search of fresh

delights around every corner.

Tiny leafy bowers, bold gateways, magnificent planting,

pools, panoramas, vegetables, llamas, fountains, colours,

light and shade.  Oh just look at the photo's or,

better still, go and see for yourself.

It's heaven on earth!