点评:Highgrove Gardens are beautiful, even visiting at the end of August, and we thoroughly enjoyed seeing them. The gardens are wonderfully varied, with so much detail and so many interesting planting ideas that we could easily have spent much longer exploring.
Our guided tour was very good, but as enthusiastic gardening hobbyists, we found ourselves wishing for more time to linger in the individual garden areas and look more closely at the plants that particularly interested us. We also would have enjoyed hearing more about the plants themselves, the garden design, and the horticultural practices used at Highgrove.
Understandably, a significant part of the tour focuses on the royal connections and King Charles’s involvement in the development of the gardens. We appreciate that this is part of what makes Highgrove unique and is undoubtedly a major attraction for many visitors. For us, however, the gardens themselves were the real attraction, and we would have happily traded some of the royal background for more horticultural detail and a slightly less structured pace.
That said, Highgrove is a beautiful and very special garden, and we are extremely glad we visited. For serious gardeners in particular, it is well worth seeing — just be prepared to leave wishing you’d had a little more time to stop and study everything.
翻译:即便是在八月底造访,海格罗夫花园依然美不胜收,我们尽情享受了这次游览。花园的布局丰富多彩,细节精致且充满了许多有趣的植物搭配方案,我们本可以花更多时间来细细探索。
我们的导览服务相当不错,但作为热爱园艺的爱好者,我们还是希望能有更多时间在各处园景中驻足,近距离欣赏那些特别吸引我们的植物。我们也很希望能听到更多关于这些植物本身、花园设计以及海格罗夫园所使用的园艺技术的信息。
不难理解,游览的很大一部分内容都集中在皇室与海格罗夫园的渊源,以及查尔斯国王在花园建设中所发挥的作用。我们明白这正是海格罗夫园独具特色之处,也无疑是吸引众多游客的主要原因。然而对我们而言,花园本身才是真正的魅力所在。我们很乐意用一部分关于王室背景的描写,来换取更多园艺方面的细节描述,以及稍显舒缓一些的节奏。
话虽如此,海格罗夫花园确实是个美丽且极其特别的花园,我们为能参观而感到万分欣喜。尤其对于热爱园艺的人来说,这里绝对值得一游——不过要做好心理准备:离开时你定会希望自己能有更多时间停下来细细欣赏每一处景致。