Tradescantia thrives in the bathroom

meanwhile outside...

Primulas appearing among the weeds

Snowdrops budding

Aconites (and nettles) thriving.

Plants again

The azalea has a few more flowers

The hyacinth still scents the room

The kalanchoe is also flowering again

The plants continue to bloom

Indoor plants

The plants in our conservatory/dining room are modestly showy.
1. an indoor azalea, repotted and with lots of the dead plants removed - there were several in the pot when it was bought a year or two ago.


2. We always called this a 'money plant' - is the fact that it is flowering for the first time in years significant??


3. The Christmas cactus has timed things well for us.


4. the spider plant thrives in this position - lots of light but no direct sun in summer/

Mottisfont

We made use of our NT membership! Easy to spend a day here. The name comes from Moots Font - a well where a medieval community used to meet.

The house was originally a priory, then became a Tudor house, built around the former church, and still later an 18th century country house. Maud and Gilbert Russell owned it and it became a gathering place for artists, writers, philosophers, designers and other guests during the early 20th century.

You've heard of pork sausage . . .

The grounds are magnificent, and extensive.

The walled garden is full of roses and many other flowering plants.

The grounds contain many other attractions

Huge sweet chestnut trees

statues

pruned plane trees

a tulip tree

the ice house

the font itself.

The house is worth visiting - for Rex Whistler's trompe-l'oeil mock classical drawing room, the furniture and the vast collection of paintings. 

In the art gallery we saw an exihibition of Lyons teashop lithographs - by many well known artists.

You can see some of them at the link below:

http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2013/july/lyons-lithographs