Agatha Christie's Greenway (Devon, England) - The House
I can think of two places that we visited where I enjoyed the house more than the gardens. The first was Greenway, not for the house itself, which was surprisingly small and cramped, but for the history behind it and the fascinating mementos on display. Agatha Christie and her husband Max Mallowan were enthusiastic collectors. You can see their collections on display throughout the house - European and Oriental ceramics, pottery, African tribal masks, Egyptian artifacts, Tunbridge ware, china, trinkets, and books. The Morning Room has a portrait of Agatha Christie as a child and her doll Rosie, sitting in a chair - The Drawing Room was where the family would gather in the evenings. Christie would entertain guests by reading chapters from manuscripts of her latest books. Agatha Christie's bedroom. Max always slept on a smaller portable traveling cot (you can see part of it in the foreground). It was his favorite bed and he carried it with him on all of his archaeological travels. N...
so pretty! Will you be having a garden tour this year?
ReplyDeleteThey are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThey are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous and even more so with the red foliage of the trees behind. Curious that they only planted part of the bed. There are some tulips that are reliably perennial here but usually in the public space large bed applications they just pull them out and replant with seasonal annuals.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, but I wonder, too, why they planted only part of the bed. Tulips usually do well for me and return for several years, but this year I discovered that half of mine have been chewed off! Not sure if it was rabbits or deer, but I'm not a happy camper at the moment.
ReplyDeleteWell, I suspect the reason they only planted part of the bed was money. Tulips are expensive annuals! They are so beautiful, however, and I am always tempted to plant a few.
ReplyDeleteWow, that first picture is a knockout! I suppose it was some kind of artistic statement where they planted them in a triangle shape. But it sure would have looked better if the whole bed was covered with tulips!
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