Taking advantage of post-lockdown freedom we headed out for a second time this week! This time to Calke Abbey.
It was a little busier than I'd expected (after all we managed to get tickets the night before) so we decided to reverse our original plan, going for a short walk through the park first, then a stroll round the gardens after most people had left.
We spent a lot of time walking round Calke's park last year but there always seems something new to find just off the marked paths.
This time we found another abandoned stile and a lovely spot to sit in the sunshine by one of the ponds.
I thought I'd visited at this time of year before but must be mistaken as I've never spotted the daffodils lining the walk up to the church from the gardens - and they'd surely be hard to miss.
In the walled garden a beautiful display of potted pansies was filling the auricula theatre, and a dramatic combination of orange and purple tulips brightening the flower beds.
My favourite flowers though were these anemones, being left to naturalise this area of the kitchen garden under fruit trees which looked ready to blossom any day.
It was getting very close to closing time by now, so we ambled back to the car, leaving the scarecrows in charge.
Taking advantage of post-lockdown freedom we headed out for a second time this week! This time to Calke Abbey. 
I thought I'd visited at this time of year before but must be mistaken as I've never spotted the daffodils lining the walk up to the church from the gardens - and they'd surely be hard to miss.
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