Another lovely day took me to our second local National Trust property, Calke Abbey. Being late in the day, we hopped on the shuttle buggy which whizzes from the car park, down to the front of the house then back up hill to the gardens and church.
The garden entrance is hidden behind shrubbery, but through the gateway, covered in bright red Virginia creeper and white wisteria blossoming late in the season, and the gardens open out. It's not cold enough yet for the palms to be covered up for winter and flowers were still blooming in the surrounding beds.
Moving on into the produce garden, the scarecrows were keeping watch over the vegetables and fruit - brilliantly-coloured chard, fat sunbathing pumpkins, apples, pears and medlars .in the orchard, and even some hop vines..
And either side of the central entrance the dahlias were in full bloom. Autumn certainly isn't a time for dying-back and empty garden beds at Calke.
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