RHS Hyde Hall
Date: June 11th 2024.
Event : A visit with Jane to RHS Hyde Hall
Location : RHS Hyde Hall, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 8ET
Around every two months, Jane and I meet up for a walk around RHS Hyde Hall. This was our early summer visit having been twice already this year.
The weather forecast was for intermittent cloud, showers and sunny intervals. We saw the cloud, we saw the sunny intervals (when it was warm), and we were lucky that it didn’t rain while we were there.
I took my camera, the Fuji film X100 vi, to record our day out. It’s became a tradition but there are one or two photographs I take each time, and each time we go the garden is in a different state with different flowers blooming and different areas of the gardens, being at their best.
Jane and I met up around 10:30 am, I’d arrived first and had a coffee and a cheese scone. After a brief chat we started our walk by going around the section called the Cottage Garden. At this time of year, this was absolutely beautiful and we both agreed it was our favourite area of the garden on this visit.
Leaving the Cottage garden, we wound our way up the hillside going through the arid garden that looping back through the rose garden before visiting the vegetable gardens. There was a school party of approximately 30 junior school children in high visibility jackets, and some stressed looking teachers and RHS volunteers keeping an eye on them. We did our best to avoid them and go where they were not. There was a lovely walk around the garden after close to a couple of hours we decided it was time for a sit down and some lunch which we had in the café on the Hilltop. After lunch we wandered down the other side of the hill visiting a couple of the smaller garden areas before, visiting the flower plant and herb shop in the main complex.
A great day out and we left about 2:30 pm.