Growing

I don’t apply myself enough to gardening, and i confess, I really don’t like going out doing chores in bad weather. However i really do like looking round vegetable gardens; it isn’t just the promise of a delicious harvest, but it’s the interesting and different crops which are grown. There is also the symmetry of a well-kept, lovingly tended vegetable garden, the nice straight rows, the uniformity of the produce and the different colours against each other, whether of the leaves,or the fruit, or the flowers.

This vegetable garden is in one of my favourite places, Benvarden Garden in Count Antrim, Northern Ireland; we haven’t visited for a while, but I have plenty of memories of the dozen or so times I have been there.  If you are ever in the area, do visit and look, not just at the  vegetables, but at the rose garden, the elegant iron bridge, the dark pools, and maybe take a cup of tea and a piece of cake in the stable tea rooms!