Visitors are usually welcome to look around the garden and relax. There is a blaze of firey colour along the wall at St Ethelwolds.
Looking back at the house, the flowers are a foaming sea of lilac and pink.
Last weekend three artists had a display of pictures in the outhouse. Dougie Simpson, Caroline Ritson and Marion Owen are regular art exhibitors in St Ethelwold’s garden.
Here are a few of Dougie’s pictures of Abingdon, Venice, and Florence.
Such beautiful gardens