In April 2020, post here, talked about Springtime in the garden of Brewood Hall, when the country was under government-mandated full lockdown. This was a return to a theme I'd first touched on in 2011 with a very short post Blossom Time at Brewood
By the start of June 2020, the garden was a riot of colour, from the vivid purple of the delphiniums planted the previous year to the rich red of roses. There was also the first flowering of the Hollyhock, also planted the previous year.
Delphinums (Brewood Hall garden 2020)
Roses (Brewood Hall garden 2020)
Hollyhock (Brewood Hall garden 2020)
A group of foxglove plants, both purple and white, were unexpected, but welcome, arrivals around the stump of the tree which had been removed in 2018 because of its dangerous condition. The removal of the tree is mentioned in the post More Brewood Hall Tree Maintenance.
Foxgloves (Brewood Hall garden 2020)
The two flower troughs at the front of the Hall, built by Rick Evans, continued to add colour until late in the year.
Flower trough at the front of the Hall (Brewood Hall garden 2020)
In 2020 the single rather ancient apple tree with its whitened, hollowed trunk surprised by giving a copious supply of fruit which, although tart, for the first time could almost be classed as eating apples. A number of apple pies resulted (not baked by the writer).
The single apple tree produced a good crop (Brewood Hall garden 2020)
My favourite tree remains the solitary Yew on the front lawn, which seems to grow wider every year. I see this as the sole remaining connection with the once-famous topiary at Brewood Hall, long removed, which I mentioned in the section 'Gardens and Orchards' of the post Notes on the History of Brewood Hall.
The Yew Tree (Brewood Hall garden 2020)
Following a summer of only slightly-relaxed 'social distancing' regulations, Autumn brought full lockdown again. The colourful displays around the garden persisted until late in the year but eventually the deciduous trees produced their crop of fruit, the leaves turned brown and dropped. On the large Barn, the Virginia Creeper turned from green to an attractive red-brown before it, too, lost its leaves.
Oak tree in October, showing acorn (Brewood Hall garden, 2020)
Virginia Creeper on Barn, October: Leaves starting to change colour and fall (Brewood Hall garden, 2020)
Right at the end of the year, after a Christmas holiday reduced by the Government to one day of restricted celebration in an attempt to control transmission of the Coronavirus, we had snow. There's more about this odd period in the post here.
Snow at Brewood Hall, 28th Dec 2020
People throughout the world live in hope of less traumatic year in 2021.
My pictures
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Brewood Hall garden 2020
