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Entrances and Archways – No 7 in a very occasional series

So here is my my 7th post in this very occasional series all about the garden entrances and archways that we discover on our garden visits. The first two are from a friend’s garden and the set after are those entrances and archways we found at the show garden of a designer in the West Midlands.

I shall finish with a mixture of entrances ans archways we have discovered this year on visit to NGS, Yellow Book, gardens.

I will now start seeking our entrances and archways on all our garden visits for No 8 in this very occasional series.

 

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Garden Entrances and Archways – No 6 in a very occasional series

This is the sixth post in this very occasional series concerning gardens entrances and archways. So here are photos taken over the last few months of these important design elements of gardens large and small.

Firstly here are some entrances we discovered at Batsford Arboretum in the autumn, on a dull showery day. The red bridge certainly added a burst of colour and invited visitors to cross over its boards and discover planting on the fare side. The friendly black wrought iron gateway lead visitors into an orcharda area as an alternative to following the main driveway.

The three pics below show how steps can provide entrances to invite the visitor to wander and see what is at their tops. The first photo is in our own Avocet garden while the second is at Gregynog an NGS Yellow Book garden in Powys. The third flight of steps are wooden and lead the wanderer up through dense woodland shrub and tree plantings.

Sunningdale, an NGS Shropshire garden near Wem, a market town north of Shrewsbury was a garden designed to make you explore and the several entrances and archways there excouraged the visitor to make choices and discover different parts of the town garden.

  

 

More pictures now from Gregynog, another NGS garden, this time a woodland garden with several different facets as seen in the photos below.

 

 

 

Down in Cornwall for a September holiday last year we found plenty of interesting entrances and archways in the varied gardens we visited. Firstly we visited Poppy’s Cottage Garden. The first picture below shows its rather odd entrance from the road.

 

Then we explored a strange garden to find in Cornwall, The Cornish Japanese Garden.

 

The gardens at The Eden Project gave plenty of varied places to enjoy.

 

Back closer in home here are a few photos from Hergest Croft Gardens

 

Here are three mystery photos for which my memory has let me down. I simply can’t remember where I took them!

        

The last pair of pics feature a beautiful gate at the Picton Garden near the Malverns, the garden that holds a National Collection of Asters. The gate leads you on a journey into beautiful mixed borders studded with masses of Asters. The secong pic features an archway from our very own Avocet patchwhich is designed to entice visitors to follow the central path and take the many inviting sideways paths.

 

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Garden Entrances and Archways – Part 5 of this very occasional series

It has been a while since we visited this series so here is a new selection of my photographs of entrances and archways we have discovered in several gardens during our visits.