We haven't been to Chatsworth so much this year but with our youngest daughter home for the weekend we decided it was time for a visit.
This summer Chatsworth are celebrating all things canine. In the garden we encountered a giant dog sculpture made from scaffolding poles and spotted cleverly planted floral displays of paw prints and silhouettes. There's more to the exhibition inside the house, but as it's on till October we didn't rush to see it this time.
A walk round a garden feels like quite gentle exercise but I find Chatsworth an excellent place to clock up my 10,000 steps without really realising.
We wandered past the rose garden just coming into full bloom, climbed among the rocks to the top of the Stryd to look down over the Round Pond
and on into the more informal setting of the Pinetum
A new feature for this year is a colourful wildflower bed along the side of the Canal Pond. Sadly its riot of colour doesn't show up well on my photos
The day was warm (thankfully not as hot as this last week) but overcast, so there wasn't enough sunshine to spark rainbows on the Emperor Fountain.
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