Snippets of the garden at Acorn Bank, Temple Sowerby

Cherub and dolphin

Here are a brief selection of images from the small formal gardens I have been out surveying on the National Trust property at Acorn Bank, near Penrith, Cumbria. Unfortunately the weather was seasonally gloomy and there was a distinct lack of exciting plants and foliage as the gardens are now closed for maintenance and sprucing up ready for the 2014 season. The photos are really just snippets of detail that caught my eye as I wandered around. I will have to revisit the property in Spring/Summer next year when the garden is back in bloom and the nearby restored corn mill is also open.

Festive holly gateway

Acorn Bank, Temple Sowerby, near Penrith, Cumbria

Replica of the ‘Warwick Vase’

Herb garden greenhouse

Bacchus I

Cherub and dolphin in the lily pond

Tools of the trade

Portuguese quince in the herb garden

Golden apple and knobbly trunk

Bacchus II