Sunday, May 21, 2023

21 May 2023 Windsor: A Tour of Savill Gardens

 


The Savill Gardens are located inside the Windsor Great Park 7 miles outside of Windsor.  We absolutely loved this garden.  We feel like we came at the peak bloom as nearly every plant, bush and tree was in bloom.  So much color and such a variety of different flowers!  Bravo to the groundskeepers.  Prepare yourselves for  barrage of flower pictures.  We packed a picnic lunch and ate it on the sly in the back of the gardens.  No drinking or picnicking was allowed but we were hungry and that chicken salad was not going to eat itself.  We wandered around with our eyes popping out and our mouths agape.  We saw a new lifebird, the European robin,  and thought we had another but it was an immature blackbird.  We walked through some more of the park and saw one of the most serious playgrounds ever!  Of course it was not open, renovations!


Thick with iris blooms


Fluffy and yellow


Purple, blue and white


Over inflated lips


Great balls of pollen


Splayed out


Almost translucent 


Very delicate


A sun rising out of the red


Orange on orange


Pointy tulip


A micro flower


A sunburst


Wisterias


Sunny happy flowers


A rose bush full of tiny blooms


One of only a few other roses that had bloomed


A mystery


Gotta get that honey


Bee in flight


Bees!


Subtle color


A ring of red flowers


A row of bluebells


Tiny little cups


A dark grass


Filled with tasty pollen


One weird sprawling beast


Red and white


Pink and red


Poof a burst of flower


So much color in one flower


More colors of green than yellow


Yellow lipped carp


Carp pond


Blue irises


Ferns rolling out


Such a weird plant


This leaf is slowly drying out


This garden is sublime


An explosion of colors


Bi colored


Blue with antenna


So hairy


This looked like a lung 


A huge wisteria tree


These flowers grew straight out of the brick wall


Oh micro tree, oh micro tree


The bees loved this bush so much that we could hear the buzzing


A Leslie bloom in the red


Wow such intense pink


Our forbidden picnic, not allowed in the gardens


A wild sprawling thing


Thick blooms


An immature blackbird


A row of flowers


Lavender rhododendrons


White and fluffy rhododendrons


Spooky tree


Two blond heads poking up out of the tall grass


This European Robin has a mouth of worms


Mystery flowers, maybe a 


Yellow as far as the eye could see


This big bee would disappear inside the flower for nectar


One gigantic bloom


So many thorns


European Robin


A Great Blue Tit


Yellow water irises


Out of the garden we go







I hope the kids come out the other end




It has been 350 days since we began our Migration