The Garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex. Watercolour 12 inches by 9.

Hi Everyone

It is well know fact that we English people do love our gardens. Maybe its our generally pleasant, moderate climate, or just our love of things in an ordered way, but gardening is a big thing in the UK.

The Cottage border is just one of the things gardeners love to plant and we are lucky in the South East of England to have some very fine gardens to visit and enjoy. They provide the stimulus to improve our own gardens too, although their beauty is a bit beyond most home gardens.

Two amongst the very best in the South East of England are Great Dixter in E.ast Sussex and Sissinghurst in Kent.

Both can be visited throughout the year but in Summer they are really magnificent with wonderful planting and colours.

In each case there is also fine house to look around too but it is the Cottage Borders that are the really great thing about these gardens.

This post has only 2 paintings, one of Sissinghurst painted a couple of years ago and a new painting of Great Dixter.

I do hope you will like them and if you have the chance to visit either then do so!

The Garden at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent. Watercolour 10 by 7 inches.

Happy travelling

Brian

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