Impressions of our trip from Holland to the SRGC Discussion Weekend 2009

[Maggi Young]

Holehird looks to be a lovely garden..... lots of colour for October, too.
But: all that rain! What a wet holiday you had!

[David Nicholson]

Lovely garden, now down on my list of places to go.

[Paddy Tobin]

Luit,

I've missed out on reading your posts for a few days and have just caught up, from the kippers onwards. You have had a lovely journey and seen some lovely places.

Many thanks for sharing, Paddy

[Lvandelft]

Luit I am glad you liked Holehird it is a wonderful garden at any time of year in beautiful surroundings.

I should give up on the SatNav if it took you to the Lake District via Lancaster from Scotland but then you would have missed a lovely city

Tony, we used the Motorway to save some time, but normally I would have used another (and nicer) road to drive to Cumbria from Scotland and so we came to Lancaster on the Motorway. I mostly used SatNav to find the quickest road.
I remember when we were in the Peak District we left Hayfield and wanted to drive over the Snake Pass, which started just outside the village!!  the SatNav told us to turn back and take a route which was at least an hour longer, so I ignored the SatNav.
I find SatNav very useful when finding the right way out of cities and when I lost somehow my way caused by roadblocks etc., which happened several times 

[Lvandelft]

Holehird looks to be a lovely garden..... lots of colour for October, too.
But: all that rain! What a wet holiday you had!

Maggi, we didn't complain, because most of the days were dry, but the first day
in the Lake District, made us think being in the LEAK District 

[Lvandelft]

some more from Holehird:

Holehird Garden                
Trough area                          
Troughs  

[Lvandelft]

Holehird Garden    
Sorbus aff. Koehneana Harry Smith
Tropaeolum speciosum  
Pittosporum garnettii  
Prunus serrula var. tibetica                                
Cedrus deodara      

[Lvandelft]

Holehird Garden               
Cotoneaster 1 
Cotoneaster 2                         
Wollemia nobilis
Hydrangea heteromalla 1       
Hydrangea heteromalla 2               
Abies procera Glauca Prostrata           

[Lvandelft]

and the last few:

Sorbus 1                               
Sorbus 2                                     
Holehird Garden                 
                 
more later

[Maggi Young]

Holehird is a truly lovely garden and immaculately kept..... I was interested to learn a little more .... here is a link: http://www.holehirdgardens.org.uk/
and
http://www.holehirdgardens.org.uk/?the-gardens,4

[David Nicholson]

Glad, I showed them David. Did not make so many pictures there.
Your roots seem to come from a great part of Britain, don't they? 

Luit, I am like a good mulch-well spread around!!

[Lvandelft]

 

[art600]

Luit

You have a excellent eye for great pictures and your visit to Holehird provided lots of opportunities.  In the depths of winter with a forecast of more cold weather and snow this was just the treat we needed.

I hope there are more places to come.

[Lvandelft]

Luit

I hope there are more places to come.

Yes Arthur and the weather is getting always better southwards 

[Lvandelft]

From Holehird we drove the narrow and steep Kirkstone Pass back to Keswick.
Before Keswick it was just dry enough to visit the Stone Circle of Castlerigg,
but it was nearly to dark for good pictures.
 
                  
Kirkstone Pass                      
Castlerigg - Stonecircle                                        

The next day started rather sunny and we decided to drive into the mountains.
In a small village called Lamplugh we made a short stop near the church.

St. Michael's Church Lamplugh                      
Parking for church visitors only