On the third day in the Malverns, we walked from British Camp car park, up to Herefordshire Beacon and the Iron age fort up there. It's a steep climb, the main feature of the photos taken show me struggling up the hills, I'm OK on the level, but walking uphill, I'm much slower than my daughters. Having just checked out the Herefordshire Beacon, I find it's just over 1000 ft, and most of those climbed in a very short distance, so not feeling quite so pathetically unfit. If you click on the link above, the Guardian article claims it's a mountain, but general consensus says it's got to be over 2000ft to qualify for mountain status.
The first photo shows the climb to British camp, and the one below could be showing any of the other hills we walked up going south along the Malvern Hills from British Camp.
Another view!! The hills are Millenium, Hangman's, Swinyard and Midsummer. We returned back via a reservoir and woods on the east of the camp
In the photo below, Ellie and I are standing with the Malvern Hills range in the background.
Before returning back home, we visited The Picton Garden, open for the NGS on Sunday 7 April, famed for its National Collection of autumn Michaelmas daisies, the tulips and lots of other plants were spectacular.
By the main entrance to the garden, lots of pots of tulips and below a broken pot arrangement
more tulips
and here a fantastically blue flowered Hepatica x schlyteri Ashwood Hybrid below
Anenomes below
and a lovely seating structure which looked quite new.
What a fantastic 3 days in the Malverns celebrating my birthday with my daughters.
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