Savile Gardens again

Autumn in the Savile Gardens. I should try to remember this lovely afternoon because I sometimes feel very down and very fragile.

Three different views of a sculpture - lovely shadows. My son said the lovers look as though they are eating each other.

I enhanced this pic for clarity but it was an incredible grass with dead ends to the leaves which seemd to improve its impact

We particularly loved this yellow planting with yellow hot pokers

This planting was completely different from last year's

But the hydrangea garden is always gorgeous. I haven't enhanced these at all.

Happy! Saville Gardens - Botanical

Yesterday I decided it was a long time since I had been to the Savill Gardens and I would have a brisk walk around. To my surprise - I enjoyed it enormously and spent a good hour walking all over the place. I think it was due to the autumn morning light. It's subtle and golden. There were sculptures on display and I tried to photograph the best aspect of the ones I liked. There were also some flowers. With inspired planting, Dahlias look great at this time of year. This first picture shows the wonderful light. My next post with be the pictures of the sculptures.

Too much light, from wherever I stood.

Sculpture - belongs in the other post

Can't remember the name of it, but what fascinating forms!

New views of Virginia Water - Savill Gardens - the Cow Pond

On Thursday I went to VW in the mid afternoon and walked until dusk; I walked to the Savill Gardens and it was very beautiful, there are snowdrops among the black grasses, and crocuses are in bloom, and I walked to the Cow Pond, which I had never been to before. I am planning to walk in the Great Park next week.

The sun was very bright - outside the temperate house.

What do you know? It's willow, biomass!

The Hidden gardens

 



Cow Pond, evening - I was trying to get a shot of a Mandarin Duck but it wouldn't move into the sun!

 

The Cow Pond

Virginia Water, 5 pm
 

Hampton Court

Plants of the Wet Tropics - more from North Queensland: Paperbark, palms, curtain fig tree

This is a giant red paperbark, botanical gardens Cairns. The point of the boardwalk, we discovered, is to stop the leeches which do lurk everywhere in a rainforest.

Paperbark

Strange lack of roots. Eaten away?