点评:We had quite a walk just to get out of the car park as it was very busy, even on a Thursday in October.
Then there is the very, very long walk to the house. We walked around the rooms we were allowed in but considering the size of the house, the rooms available to view were very restricted. Essentially, mostly a few rooms on the ground floor plus a few others.
The gardens have a huge range of apple trees growing, and as I have apple trees myself, I was very surprised that the apples were still on the trees at this time of year, I picked mine weeks ago and I live in the North of England. One tree was absolutely weighed down by apples as they had not been thinned out, there was a cluster of about 12 apples all together, clearly they don't thin the apples to get the best of the crop.
It doesn't look like they use the apples or even sell them. Its a real shame as I would have liked to have bought some of the unusual apples to see if I might be interested in growing that variety at home. I mentioned this to the people at the car park and they said it was something they should have considered for the autumn display that they recently had. Clearly no communication around the property.
Despite this, the gardens had staff pruning and weeding, just ignoring the bounty on the trees. What is the point of planting such a variety if you don't do anything with them?
Thankfully there is an electric vehicle to take people back up the hill, sadly, this only carries 5 passengers so my husband had to walk back rather than wait for the next one.
Generally, a bit disappointed, could have been much better.
翻译:我们走了好长一段路才从停车场出来,因为停车场人很多,即使是在十月的一个周四。
然后,我们还要走很长很长的路才能到房子。我们绕着允许进入的房间走了一圈,但考虑到房子的大小,可以参观的房间非常有限。基本上,主要是一楼的几个房间和其他几个房间。
花园里长满了各种各样的苹果树,我自己也种了苹果树,所以很惊讶苹果在这个时候还在树上。我的苹果几周前就摘了,我住在英格兰北部。有一棵树因为没有疏果,完全被苹果压垮了,一棵树上结了大约12个苹果,显然他们不是为了获得最佳产量而疏果。
看起来他们并没有使用这些苹果,甚至没有出售。真可惜,因为我本来想买一些这种不常见的苹果,看看我是否有兴趣在家里种植这种品种。我跟停车场的人提了这件事,他们说最近秋季的展览应该考虑到这一点。显然,庄园周围缺乏沟通。
尽管如此,花园里还是有工作人员在修剪和除草,完全忽略了树木的丰收。如果种植这么多植物却不加以利用,那还有什么意义呢?
谢天谢地,有一辆电动车可以载人上山,可惜的是,这辆车只能载5个人,所以我丈夫不得不步行回去,而不是等下一班。
总的来说,有点失望,本来可以做得更好。