My previous visit to Felbrigg's walled garden was in summertime, when the flower borders were bursting with colour. I was completely enchanted by it, and wanted to see if it retained the same magic in autumn.
Long story short, it did.
It was helped by being such a glorious day - warm enough to walk round without a coat, and to sit and relax in the sunshine. Amazing for October.
The garden is split into several sections, each with different plants, a mix of flowers and vegetables, ranging from the usual English garden varieties, dahlias and delphiniums, to figs and palms.
On my previous visit there had been chickens wandering around, pecking at grubs and acting as natural insect killers, but at the moment they're cooped up because of bird flu; even the doves appeared to be staying in their dovecot.
It wasn't quite an empty as it appears from the photos but it's an amazingly peaceful place. Maybe it's good design, or feng shui, but it feels like a place to relax and just take in the atmosphere. And afterwards, although I forgot to take a photo, there was lunch in the sunshine outside the National Trust cafe - ploughman's roll and cake, Victoria sponge this time,
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