Colour at Compton Verney

Another visit to Compton Verney to see three exhibitions, but first, a walk around the grounds. 

I always enjoy walking around the lake which was apparently created from a chain of five separate ponds. Capability Brown designed the lake to look like a river that, like the park itself, appeared to continue indefinitely.

A photograph is posted by the lake: it's the detail of a Staffordshire dish depicting Compton Verney c1790. We did not think it quite matched what we could see and decided to investigate later.

It started drizzling so we decided to go and see the exhibitions and leave the walk for later. As we approached the house we could see the bright colours that the pillars and the windows had been decked with by Morag Myerscough.

A bright, vibrant display of tulips was one of the first things we saw after we left the house.

More tulips at the top of the steps

and some fritillaries

We walked all around the meadow which is at the back of the house which was full of cowslips

through the path that is lined with colourful bughotels made by local children

admired this massive cedar of Lebanon

more colour around this tree

anemone blanda blue

Having 'done' the grounds we decided to walk through Old Town Meadown, so over this bridge

which is positioned over this stream

and we reached the meadow

lots of dandelions

and yes, we could verify that the Staffordshire plate does provide a good representation of the view from here

We continued on our way

and reached Morag Myerscough's Village, an art installation that's been on this site for over a year.