Photographing seventeen gardens within the space of two and a half hours was always going to be a tall order. For Kevin S., who was forced to decline numerous offers of liquid refreshment along the way in the name of duty, completing the circuit represented an almost superhuman feat of endurance.
Kevin also found time to snap most (or was it all?) of the entries in this year’s scarecrow competition. Sincere apologies to anyone whose scarecrow remained undiscovered.
Despite the cloudy skies and the heavy winds, the gardens of Parwich looked truly magnificent this afternoon. Many thanks to all who took part, to all who visted, and of course to the Horticultural Society for arranging yet another successful and enjoyable event.
In the gallery which follows, our seventeen show gardens are displayed in numerical order, according to the official map: The School, School View, Stable Cottage, Wheatsheaf Cottage, Pool Croft, Town Head, Parwich Hall, Gardener’s Cottage, Knob Hall, Creamery Cottage, Orchard Farm, 6 Church Walk, Church Cottage, Flaxdale, The Fold, Walnut Cottage and Brook Close Farm.
At least one image from each garden has been chosen; usually there are two, and occasionally there are three. Again, our apologies to those gardens who received somewhat short shrift; time was very limited, and lighting conditions were far from ideal.
Our 2008 gallery starts “below the fold”. As always, clicky-clicky to make it biggy-biggy!
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Hello from Switzerland,
What wonderful photos and what a lovely community you seem to be living in! If I wasn’t living here in Nyon, I reckon Parwich would be a very good place to be.
Your site sort of inspired me to create my own blogsite for the town I live in, mine isn’t really community run, it’s just me, but there are some similarities. There is also a scarecrow festival in one of the villages here too, so
I will go and take photos next time its on.
Kind regards from a very hot, Euro 2008 celebrating French speaking Switzerland.
P.S I came across your site as it was mentioned in “Troubled Diva’s” blog
What a lovely reminder of our beautiful Parwich Gardens. It doesn’t matter how often you go round them there seems to be something new to see each year ( and plenty of good ideas to borrow) Thanks for the lovely pics Kevin – I am surprised that you managed to keep the camera steady and in focus with all the liquid refreshment that people ‘forced’ on you! Thanks of course to all the lovely gardeners for sharing their gardens with us.
Hi Catherine from Switzerland,
We lived along the lake from you in Vevey between 1997 and 2000. We remember how pretty your town is and took the steamboat from Nyon to Yvoire many times! Summer is a lovely time in your area – we enjoyed the fêtes and celebrations of the towns and villages so much that we had to find a village in the UK with a good sense of community when we came back. Parwich and Swiss villages have much in common! We wish you well with your blogsite.
Mike & Sue