Rosemoor and Dartington

Tuesday we went to Rosemoor RHS Garden. We're all RHS members, and it was only 20 minutes away. Lovely garden, full of spring flowers, hellebores, magnolias, bog plants and a lovely woodland walk. We also walked round the arboretum, but there's not really much to see when the trees aren't in leaf!

As usual there was a nice tea room, so we had a lovely lunch of sandwiches, salads, soup, beer and wine, not all of us had everything!

In the afternoon we went to Dartington Glass Factory. I've been a few times before, and it never fails to fascinate me. Everything is hand made in the blowing room - glasses, jugs, decanters, vases. A team of guys (I've yet to see female glass blower - wonder why?) work in groups of about 6, each with a different task. The master blower is in charge, and does the most complex work, others add handles, lips etc. It's great team work and very skilled. I'm amazed no-one gets burnt - there's several furnaces, lots of hot glass being passed around, and it's very hot.

Afterwards chance for some retail therapy in the factory shop where you can pick up some great bargains.

When we got back, we were pleased to see the peacock displaying himself to a nearby peahen - very impressive, but she was completely uninterested!

Later as we came back from the local pub, we were surprised to see him roosting quite high in a tree - can you spot him?

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