Eltham Palace: 1930's Art Deco Palace & Gardens versus the Ancient (Part 2)

By NEILMUIR1
August 17, 2010

I do hope you enjoyed Part I of the Palace and Gardens. Let us take another walk and see what else we can find in the 19 acres around the Palace, both old and new! There were a few surprises and all of them very nice ones.

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Aug 16, 2010 6:46 PM CST
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Name: Kathy
Western MA

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Great job of documenting those garden rooms and the ponds, moats, and lake. They created a paradise!!! Love all the hydrangea (never too many in my opinion). Keep up the good work!!!
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Aug 16, 2010 9:01 PM CST
Name: Linda Cartwright
Del Rio, Texas
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Neil, loved the 19 acre walk today. It is so beautiful. Hope you sat on the bench long enough for all of us!
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Aug 16, 2010 9:21 PM CST
Name: Lucy
Tri Cities, WA (Zone 6b)
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Loved the planting at the moat. You gave us a great tour.
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Aug 16, 2010 10:28 PM CST
Name: Neil
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Dear all, thank you for your most kind comments. I was concerned about this part as it lacked a lot of the colour of the first Part, but it did seemed to work when I had finished it!
Regards.
Neil.
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Aug 17, 2010 7:08 AM CST
Name: Linda Cartwright
Del Rio, Texas
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Not all gardens have a lot of color, but just the b eauty of walking through w ith you was so amazing! Will there be a part 3? Maybe another garden area?
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Aug 17, 2010 7:44 AM CST
Name: Maridell
Sioux City IA (Zone 4b)
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Love the garden rooms, a nice respite from the world!
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Aug 17, 2010 7:59 AM CST
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Name: Kathy
Western MA

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If there is only one garden room you don't really unwind do you. I had to see many before the peace came over me.
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Aug 17, 2010 8:12 AM CST
Name: Maridell
Sioux City IA (Zone 4b)
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I agree boojum. With rooms being plentiful and each room being similar a person feels like they can choose one that is unoccupied and not be disturbed...at least that is how I see it.
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Aug 17, 2010 11:44 AM CST
Name: Neil
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May I say something? There is one place we go to down in Kent that anyone can unwind in. This little village has a church with the steeple built separately. The land is too soft for the steeple to go on the top of it, so they built it further away! It also has a modern coach house or pub as it was built in 1576. So that is ideal for lunch and a pint from the Kent Hop fields. It also has a steam railway that you can go on trips through the Kent Countryside, which is fabulous. Then it is back to the Tudor Rooms tea house that is older than the pub for English Cream tea. Warm scones, butter off the farm, homemade strawberry jam and lashings of thick rich cream, with of course a teapot of tea! Sat in the Cottage Garden, listening to the skylarks singing and the swallows swirling ahead, then the splash of a trout jumping for a fly in the clean stream is pure Heaven. Total cost for cream tea and as many scones and jam etc., as you can eat $8, any left you can take them home!
That is pure Heaven; no mobile phones, nobody bothers you, oh for total bliss!
Regards.
Neil.
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Aug 17, 2010 12:19 PM CST
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Name: Kathy
Western MA

Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Dog Lover Region: Northeast US Orchids Irises
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Ahhhhhhh!
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Aug 17, 2010 12:53 PM CST
Name: Maridell
Sioux City IA (Zone 4b)
enjoy the moment
Charter ATP Member I was one of the first 300 contributors to the plant database! Tip Photographer Cat Lover Garden Ideas: Level 2 Region: United States of America
Lover of wildlife (Black bear badge)
ditto the ahhhhhh.
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