I've been hoping to get along to Derby hydrangea garden all summer, but the weather seemed against me - either too hot or too wet - plus, with the garden being situated in Darley Park which is a popular place over the school holidays, the one occasion I tried to visit the car park was full. So I waited till the school term had started and the park was quieter.
This walled garden in a secluded corner of the main park is home to a huge collection of hydrangeas of different size, shape and colour.
Some of the smaller plants were looking a bit burned out by the previous week's late burst of summer but, although we're on the cusp of autumn, many larger specimens were still flowering well.
One of the charming things about hydrangeas is the way their colours change over the summer. At this point in the season their blooms are turning duskier, more subdued that their brash pinks and reds of early summer.
There aren't just hydrangeas to be seen here. Just outside the walled garden is an ares given over to wildlife gardening.
Some of the flowers are dying back now but verbena, cosmos, and this sky-high rudbeckia were still bringing colour to the area.
With high walls sheltering it this is a lovely area to just sit and soak up the sun.
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