Tulips at Dunsborough Park, Ripley, Nr. Guildford - 22 April 2022

 Three Snappy Friends - Angie, Anne, and myself - visited Dunsborough Park, Ripley with our cameras especially to see the tulips.  The Gardens are open only under the National Open Gardens Scheme so had to be booked.  The gardens had been featured on Gardeners' World last year.  Personally, I was rather disappointed.   There were a lot of tulips, but the beds themselves, especially the further away from the main house you got, were very weedy.   But it was sunny and a very pleasant afternoon.

I have no idea what this tree is - it is very old and very sprawly in its own walled garden and reaching into the next garden.

The above three photos are of a very large and very dilapidated Victorian greenhouse and orangery

.  It was so sad to see it in this condition, but I guess will be very very expensive to repair.

We then came across the vegetable garden with this old lean-to in which was probably grown fruit trees against the wall.   No vegetables being grown here either.

You have to love a door in a wall.

And another one.   This looks to be used.

This huntsman was just standing on his own in a flower bed.

Cowslips

This meadow is where they plant all the previous year's bulbs that are removed from the gardens.  It was quite effective.

When we left the gardens we went on to a local garden centre for a welcome cup of tea with cake 

(of course).