Regular readers (I hope there are one or two) will know how much I love gardening, and, that gardeners' down-time activity, visiting other gardens. Usually this means the vast gardens of stately homes which bear little resemblance to my own tiny plot, but at weekend I visited gardens of a different sort - private gardens opened for just one day, in the Derbyshire market town of Wirksworth.
I'm not going to post photos of the gardens as they are after all private, but the entrances were just as delightful. Wirksworth looks rather built up from the street - the houses form a continuous front to the road with no glimpse of what lies behind, but up narrow passages, through gateways, and hidden behind hedges were so many hidden places waiting to be discovered.
Seeing so many beautiful small gardens was inspiring, though I think the main things I learned was be ruthless with invasive plants no matter how attractive they are!
Wirksworth itself is an attractive place of old buildings and narrow streets leading away from the main road.
We didn't have enough time to visit all the open gardens, but afterwards we walked (staggered?) up Greenhill to the highest point of Stoney Wood to take in the view over the town and across to Black Rocks
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