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Home to the Bells of Bloomsbury fame (Blooms-a-bury is such a gardener's pun!), Charleston House is a must-see for bookish gardeners.

Among the many fancies of that house and garden are astonishing textile patterns, a penchant for silver-foliaged flowers, and a droll, troll-style of painted furnature.

Vanessa Bell wrote in 1936, “The house seems full of young people in very high spirits, laughing a great deal at their own jokes… lying about in the garden which is simply a dithering blaze of flowers and butterflies and apples.”

I plan to paint two rooms this winter in some sort of homage to Vanessa Bell. More details later.