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The Floral Beauty of an English Garden in Summer
Touring Ladywell Fields, Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens
“I mind me in the days departed,
How often underneath the sun
With childish bounds I used to run
To a garden long deserted.”
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Deserted Garden”
Many a writer has waxed poetic about an English garden and there has to be good reason for that. Not exactly proud to admit but I often have a much easier time relating to trees and flowers as opposed to human beings, who can often be so incredibly confounding beyond mere words. A lot of poets and writers probably feel the same way.
Visiting as many of the infamous English parks and gardens as I could was high on my list of things to do during my visit to England last summer.
Ladywell Fields
“They are; and Bolingbroke
Hath seized the wasteful king. O, what pity is it
That he had not so trimm’d and dress’d his land
As we this garden!”
— William Shakespeare, Richard II
