Daffodils

Warley Place again - the light was just right on the sweet chestnut trees. The first extra shows a haha, hard to convey in a photograph. The second extra shows wild garlic, but there was a lot more.

This is supposed to be the best time of the year to visit Warley Place, at least if you like daffodils, as the fields are covered with them. Warley Place was the home (as I've posted here before) of Ellen Willmott, a famous gardener who was a termagant to her staff. She used her immense wealth to set up gardens in France and Spain and to fund plant-hunting journeys to the Far East. Since she died in 1934, the house has decayed and vanished. More from a Suffolk garden blog. She had about 600 types of daffodil, but most have gone. Her gardening career started with hybridizing daffodils, though she was interested in gardens far longer. She was also a keen photographer and apparently photographed an eruption of Mount Vesuvius on a slide.