I hope you had a lovely weekend. If you’re based in the UK, I hope you have/are having a great Bank Holiday Monday too…
Last month, I went to Perch Hill Farm in East Sussex, a lovely garden centre and flower & cookery school, owned by Sarah Raven.
The reason for my visit was a blogger’s meet-up with the writers of Sarah’s blog, Garlic & Sapphire and Sarah’s Web Co-ordinator, Alissa.
It was so lovely to meet Belinda from Wild Acre and Karen from Lavender and Lovage.
During our visit, which was also an Open Day, we had a Q&A with Sarah and took part in a guided tour of the garden, which she led.
And after a delicious lunch in the cafe, we had a meeting with Alissa to chat about Garlic & Sapphire.
Here are some images from my visit…
Isn’t it a beautiful place? If you’d like to visit Perch Hill Farm, the next Open Day is on Saturday, 18th May. As well as a cafe, there’s a lovely shop there too…
For Flowerona readers who like cooking, do pop over to Karen’s blog Lavender and Lovage for lots of lovely recipes. And if you like jewellery and cut flowers, do visit Belinda’s Wild Acre blog.
Thank you very much to Alissa for organising the meet-up and also for taking this picture below of Karen, Belinda and I.
Left to right : Rona, Belinda & Karen
P.S. The link to the Sarah Raven website is part of my affiliate programme.
(Images : Rona Wheeldon for Flowerona)
Such gorgeous photos! So glad you had a lovely day – I very much enjoyed meeting you too…
Thank you very much Alissa :-).
FABULOUS post Rona and glorious photos too! It was lovely to meet you, Belinda and Alissa too……Karen
Hmm it looks like your site ate my first comment (it was extremely long) so I guess
I’ll just sum it up what I had written and say, I’m thoroughly
enjoying your blog. I too am an aspiring blog writer but I’m still new to the whole thing.
Do you have any tips and hints for first-time blog
writers? I’d really appreciate it.
Hi Helaine
Sorry that I didn’t get your first comment. There are so many places to start! I recommend that you begin with on-line blogging courses (e.g. by Decor8), face-to-face blogging courses in your local area and books (e.g. Blog Inc by Joy Cho). Oh, and the Problogger blog…
Good luck in your blogging journey.
Best wishes
Rona