Window Boxes in Bloom, The Royal York Hotel, Station Road, York, 15/08/15.

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flowers, gardening, Grade II listed, North Eastern Railway, Railway Architecture of North East England, Station Road York, The Royal York Hotel, William Peachey, window, window boxes, York

Leaving the train at York is always a feast for the eyes.I usually cross the station using the footbridge, so I can admire one of the great “cathedrals of the Railway Age” [to borrow a phrase a website called “Railway Architecture of North East England“] and take everything in. Then I usually turn left when I leave the station, onto Station Road, passed the waiting taxi cabs and face my first York landmark, The Royal York Hotel, a Grade II listed building designed by William Peachey of the North Eastern Railway. The hotel opened in 1878, a year after the present railway station, and was the flagship hotel for the North Eastern Railway Company’s flagship hotel, according to a certain on-line encyclopaedia.

I can’t say I have notice The Royal York Hotel’s window boxes in the past, but they must have looked particularly charming on this particular occasion [either that or I wasn’t rushing passed then in a hurry to get somewhere for once]!

Insect House in The Shape of a Church, The Church Yard, St. John the Baptist’s Church, Bere Regis, 10/07/15.

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Bere Regis, church, Church of England., church yard, Churches, Dorset, gardening, insect house, insects, ivy, St John the Baptist's Church Bere Regis, tree stump, wildlife

Rose Bush Update 26/06/15.

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buds, flowers, Garden, gardening, petals, Rose Bushes, Roses

Tree on Wheels, Prince’s Wharf, Bristol, 27/05/15.

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Bristol, Garden, gardening, mobile, planter, Prince's Wharf Bristol, trees, trolley, wheels

Allotment Gardens, Upper Bristol Road, Bath, 28/04/15.

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allotment gardens, allotments, bath, flowers, gardening, green house, Royal Victoria Park Bath, trees, Upper Bristol Road Bath

My sister and I were walking through Royal Victoria Park and I suddenly realised that, beyond the tree lined avenue, were these allotments. I like parks and gardens, but I think allotment gardens have a beauty all of there own.

Rose Bush Update 08/01/15.

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first, flowers, Garden, gardening, Rose Bushes, Roses, White Roses

The first rose of 2015.

The Garden Gate, Edinburgh, 22/03/14.

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Art, Edinburgh, Garden, gardening, gate, painting, The Secret Garden, wall

But where exactly is it?

I was lost when I took this photograph, but I have a feeling that this beautiful garden gate is somewhere close to the Royal Commonwealth Pool on Dalkeith Road. “The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett came to mind briefly, before walking on down a seemingly endless road and then turning around to walk back the way I came!

Rose Bush Update 03/11/14.

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flowers, Garden, gardening, Pink, Pink Roses, raindrops, Rose Bushes, Roses

The Pink Rosebush.

Wellington Boot Planter, The Stone Yard, York Minster, York, 12/05/14.

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flowers, gardening, green, plants, stone masonry, The Stone Yard, Wellington boots, York, York Minster

The creation of a green fingered stone mason.

Photo Archive: Bridlington Station Buffet, c.2008.

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Bridlington, Buffet, flowers, gardening, hanging baskets, Public Transport, Train stations

What a welcoming sight to anyone who has just stepped off a train. I seem to remember that trains going on to Scarborough arrive on the outer platform, so I didn’t immediately step off the train into a bed of flowers, but it was close. I imagine that if I had boarded a train from Hull that terminated in Bridlington, this would have been the sight that greeted me as I stepped off the train and turned towards the exit. I walked all the way out Flamborough Head that day and I can safely say that this was the most colourful thing I laid eyes on.