With a large allotment plot and a back garden to look after, there’s now a big additional factor to consider whenever we’re planning a trip away. No longer is it all about the best time of year to visit a destination, working out how best to avoid the crush of school holidays and other peak travel times, or even about saving money by travelling in shoulder or low seasons.
These days, all of those considerations may conflict with our need to be growing and planting out seedlings, watering and weeding the crops, and fighting desperately to keep the pests off long enough to raise everything through to harvest.
So we love this quote from The Royal Horticultural Society (to which we have a lifetime membership).
Do you have a garden kitchen or allotment that influences when you travel?
This photo was taken in Kew Gardens, one of the most inspirational places in London for gardeners, as well as those who simply enjoy the beauty of a well-tended park and the magnicent Kew greenhouses.
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Kew Gardens (and the Chelsea flower show!) are on my bucket list. I fully expect my garden to be half jungle and half dead when I come back from a fortnight in Italy at the start of July.
Everything grows so fast during the summer doesn’t it, and the weeds seem to grow fastest of all!
I’m not much of a gardener (I tried…everything died) but I definitely have things I plan my travel schedule around.
My mum and both of Pete’s parents have / had green fingers so I think it’s only natural we inherited that same love, though both of us are much lazier gardeners than our parents!
Ha ha that is a good one, so a garden is a prison sentence lol? Not a problem for me I only have a balcony on the 18th floor and a black thumb. I do have a flower pot and a lettuce pot, low maintenance.
Haaa, well I guess you could look at it like that but given that we can only manage a certain number of trips a year in any case, it’s not so much of a hardship to avoid the key times for a gardener!
I’ve never heard this quote before! Love that your garden is supposed to keep you planted (?) over the summer.
Haa, very good!!! Yes, it definitely keeps us grounded, so to speak, but it’s worth it and we tend to avoid the hottest months when travelling anyway…
haha! Lucky we are heading in to winter here in Australia, so it is the perfect time to chase a summer elsewhere!
Yes, it’s the opposite for us – come November through to February, we can find summer in the Southern hemisphere to escape the grey and dark days of London!
That is such a simple picture, yet the details and vivid colors make it exquisite. Beautifully captured. Beauty is everywhere.
Thanks Punita, I’m a sucker for shallow depth of field photographs of flowers, I find it a mesmerising hobby!
What a great quote! One of my favorites is the all who wander are not lost!
Yes that’s a favourite of mine too!
lol as I sit here minding a garden in Cyprus for a British expat who is now back home tending her English garden I have to laugh. I so want to visit Kew and the Chelsea Flower show someday, but my god the ridiculous prices especially for Chelsea I guess gorgeous gardens are only for the rich now.
I’ve been to Chelsea once and never again, to be honest. The crowds are so oppressive to me, they make it hard to appreciate the beauty of the gardens themselves. I even tried on members only day but that wasn’t much better. Kew on the other hand, I adore, and highly recommend. And there are other flower shows that are not as crazy as Chelsea but just as beautiful!
Interesting! So when is the best time to travel for the gardening folks?
It depends on where you are, and what kind of gardening you do. For us, we grow a lot of fruit and vegetables from seed, so the period from late March through into May is critical as that’s when you plant seeds, nurture them indoors and then plant them outside, keeping the pests off them while they’re young and vulnerable as best you can. Harvest time runs throughout June to October, and it’s not so bad to miss a week or two there, as most crops run on for longer than that anyway, so hopefully still able to have some. Late Autumn through to very early Spring is ideal time though, as only preparation work and not much of it.
Despite my grandfather being a professional gardener and my mother, his daughter, having a talent to grow plants in the most inhospitable conditions, I didn’t inherit their talent. I’d be the one writing the quotes then 😀
Ha ha, oh dear, maybe it’s skipping a generation? ❤️
Even my little back garden ends up as a jungle this time of year if I am away. But, I really do enjoy it!
I think it’s not such a big deal if there’s no fruit and veg crops as it’s just a case of looking a bit overgrown and needing to restore to order when home!
We have two garden beds in our yard but only grow maybe a dozen veggies plus strawberries and we have blueberry bushes too. I would love to have more once the kids are older and our sports shuttling duties aren’t taking up soooo much of our time. But then, maybe we’ll also want to use that time to travel more… 😉
Absolutely! I think if you think carefully about what you grow – when it needs most care at the start and when it’s due to be harvested, you could still fit in some good travelling each year!!!
Kew Gardens is one of my favourite places in London. I love going in the Spring when everything is blooming. But it’s lovely any time of year, if you ask me 🙂
I agree, it’s a beautiful place to visit.
You most certainly should not! Watcing our neighbours here in the village producing all their food from the land, boy summer is busy!
Yeah, definitely a time of year where regular visits to the plot are called for!
We’ve got a large front and back yard that needs weekly upkeep. Fortunately, we can ignore it for a couple weeks at a time if we plan ahead!
Yes, I think actually it’s more spring that’s hard to miss than all of summer!
Summers are indeed busy times of life! Such a well made card. Love the color.
Thank you!
I’m not much of a summer vacationer myself. I truly covet the shoulder season. Why fight all the crowds and then just end up being hot and miserable everywhere. I’d much rather go when there are less people to contend with.
We are the same, we love travelling in spring and autumn to places where winter is cold and dark or summer is hot and humid. We do travel in our UK winter to places that are good to see at that time of year, but generally avoid UK summer as it’s nice to be at home then, plus it’s good to avoid all the family holiday crowds and higher prices!
Such a great point! Never thought of that!
A gardener’s lament!
I’m living in Spain and this past month I’ve been travelling quite a bite and most my plants died… I put those supposed to work gelly that gives water for 1 month but it didn’t work… SO now I’m surrendering to semi-cactus plants… not my favorites but couldn’t make magic with plants in hot Barcelona.