Friday visit - Barrington Court

 It was very hot, and I didn't take many pictures.  

Verbascum and Verbena along the back of the workshops

Part of the house was shut off, and it was really too hot to linger around the gardens.  Of particular note were the trees and also a small enclosed garden which had many forms of white Cosmos from the lovely white cupcake form, through the doubles and tall and shorter varieties. 

After a cuppa, we made a tour of the workshops and we have a great mouch around there and years ago I started to investigate pancheons and found on a visit there many years ago that they did manke Pancheons, I have one from my grandmother which was probably her grandmothers, so I bought a little bowl this time.

I picked up a large patty pan with deep scallops, it was a thing of beauty....

I could tell it was still tender, so sautéed it with some added walnuts, dressed with walnut oil and a little balsamic vinegar, it made a great lunch or two.

After one lunch served hot, the ret was refrigerated and enjoyed the second day. It was the weekend of the dearly beloved's archery tournament, so I feasted on tapas style dishes including the Patty pan, on both days.

On the way home from Barrington Court we stopped off for lunch at The Rose and Crown at East Lambrook, where we order the roasted beef pies, yes they were proper ones with pastry top and bottom, served hot, but oh dear: the pastry was as hard as anything, the beans had been held in tepid water, and quite honestly we wished we had settled for something in East Lambrook Manor gardens, even a modest scone would have been better.  After dinner we sauntered over, and I had been under the impression that its future as a garden and venue open to the public was unknown, but I am delighted to say that East Lambrook Gardens and plant nursery it is fully open, and how better to celebrate this than buying a few plants to add to the garden.

It would have been rude not to have done....