RIP .... to blog awards!
Now this is a really serious message to all of my fellow bloggers out there .... please, please, please, no more awards. You can mention my blog, you can put me in your side column links, you can follow me, but I'm really serious, no more awards.....

Magical Memories on a Monday!
The weather is so awful here in England that I'm reflecting on some of the lovely flowers I've seen this year to cheer me up! Hope you'll enjoy them too. Off to India now, so I will be carrying on with my alphabetical gardens from abroad, interspersed with relevant garden entries from Rajasthan. Thanks for visiting my blog.

"I" for Iconic English gardens!
In my last post I featured wonderful historic houses with gardens, and in this entry there are stunning houses, but I'm concentrating on iconic gardens with a capital "I"! Steel yourself though, because you're going to encounter some interesting road conditions reachi

"H" for Historic Houses with gardens
There are so many exquisite gardens beginning with "H" that I can't fit them into one entry, so I'm concentrating on members of the Historic Houses Association today, because you won't get finer architecture than this and the gardens are spectacular too! If, like me, you are interested in visiting gardens, this is a wonderful organisation to join - you pay an annual fee and you can visit most gardens free - you also get the quarterly magazine which gives you news about member properties.

Some really gorgeous "F" and "G" Gardens
Today, I've got some really special gardens for you on my alphabet tour! From Forde Abbey in Dorset to Greenbank Garden in Scotland - they are all favourites of mine - and places that I return to whenever I am in the area.