Let's go to the Chelsea Flower Show, a gardener's Mecca.

Good morning campers! Did you think the travelogue was over? Ah, no, it is not. We have many more places to go and things to see. Click on the galleries below to see the photos in a larger format. Today's garden destination is RHS Garden Wisley in Woking, Surrey, GU23 6QB, given to the Royal Horticultural Society in 1903 by Sir Thomas Hanbury. However, George Fergusson Wilson was the real spirit and driving force of the garden. Sir Hanbury bought the property after Wilson's death. It seems he was into saving gardens as he bought others too. In Wisley, Wilson created the oldest section, called the 'Oakwood experimental garden,' in 1878. He was set upon growing difficult plants. I laughed when I read this description because all gardeners seem to be about growing difficult plants. Wisley has quite the pedigree as do most places in England. You can't go anywhere in Great Britain...

Hot and humid are the watchwords for this June Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day. Daylilies and grasses don't mind though I do when I go out to weed the garden. The air is so heavy I can hardly breathe. From just deadheading today's daylilies, I'm soaked in sweat. Deadheading requires very little exertion so you can tell how humid it is. Hemerocallis Nancy Ann Kinnett I wrote that paragraph yesterday. This morning I awoke to raindrops pelting the skylights above my bed. The rain didn't amount to much, barely a trace, but it did bring down morning temperatures. I am grateful. Hemerocallis 'Navajo Pony' has a wonderful eyezone and a beautiful green throat. Since June is always about the daylilies in my garden, I'm going to try to show you some of my newer cultivars this year. This is the ninth year of the blog, and while gardens do change, they stay...

In no particular order, our next stop on our England travelogue after Sissinghurst Castle is Hever Castle --pronounced "Heever"--in Edenbridge, Kent. Did you know Hever Castle was the childhood home of Anne Boleyn? Although Boleyn's life ended badly because she married King Henry VIII, her former home is a fairy-tale castle complete with a drawbridge, walled bailey and moat. The original castle was constructed in 1270, but it played a powerful role in the 15th and 16th centuries. Hever Castle framed by a blue sky. Later owners made amendments to the castle like a secret place to celebrate mass. Things were turbulent during the Tudor years, and it shows inside the castle walls. Inside the keep at Hever Castle. This was as far as I could go inside to take photos. Unfortunately, they don't allow photographs inside, but Catholic, Protestant, Catholic, Protestant, the castle followed England's history pretty closely. Here are some photos of the interior from...