Belton daffodils

I've been to Belton many times over the years, but I've never seen the daffodils looking this stunning

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In part, this was heading there when the daffodils were in full bloom,instead of in the past heading there just because we were going away to Norfolk; this isn't the best way of catching flowers at their best. I think another thing was that stopping en route to somewhere else limits the time you can spend at any one property, so maybe we never got to see them. 

Whatever the daffodils were just stunning. Stretching as far as the eye can see!

We wandered beyond the pleasure grounds up to the lakes where there were still daffodils growing everywhere.

And even back along the main driveway to the house.These were by far the best daffodils we'd seen.

 

Kedleston daffodils

Another gorgeous day and another walk amongst the daffodils

 

Easton Walled Garden

Easron Walled Garden is a new place for us to visit. I learned of it, rather unusually, through a Sawdays advert for garden properties and decided that it would make a good place to visit. Then I discovered that it was one of the properties covered by our Historic Houses membership so off we went.

It's known in early Spring for its snowdrops. It was too wet to be worth visiting then but the snowdrop walk was still open and we could see where they were meant to be. There were daffodils around the place bringing sunshine and cheer. 

We followed the path round the snowdrop walk, along side the river Wensum, which flows on to Grantham.

Then across this magnificent bridge which led to the walled garden.

This was mainly laid to orchard, with bulbs underneath

Then back down to the bridge, and over and up to the terraced gardens.