Montacute House

What I loved about this National trust house was the gallery section on the top floor, where the paintings are lent from the The National Portrait Gallery. The Paintings are beautiful and are of monarchs,dukes, lords and ladies, allot of them are very well known, I was surprised they were here not in London. The house itself is nice but nothing memorable, because even now I can't remember a specific thing about the rooms, apart from the paintings.

The Unloved Garden

This was my favourite garden at Hampton Court Flower Show this year just because it was so different, basically because it wasn't formal and it had weeds! This is the garden that closest resembles mine. What I think it had above the other gardens was charm it had a face you could see this being somewhere, and I know it only got a bronze but to me it was brilliant.

Hampton Court Flower Show 2010

I wasn't going to come to Hampton court this year because I thought I have been to Chelsea this year so might give it a miss, but I enjoyed it so much last year I went anyway and also the weather was going to be really sunny for it. Now I went I am so glad I did there was so much to see and do, we hardly covered it really, they say you need a couple of days to look through Chelsea, which I don't think is true you just need to get there early I did it in a bout 4 hours. Hampton court on the other hand 2 days at least, firstly they added a new food section, a couple new tents a.k.a massive marquees! and also each shopping stand has so much to offer its hard to take it all in. The gardens on the other hand I wouldn't say are not the most ground braking in design but they are attainable which in my opinion are more useful because you can look at them and go OK I can recreate that in my own garden. For example the garden below didn't need any maintenance and would be ideal for our front garden. Hampton court also has a very laid back vibe people do take it slower and there is no tension in the air like I have to see this, I must get a photo, why won't these people move etc.