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August in the Gardens
Aug. 15th, 2021 03:37 pmOn Thursday we visited the Botanic Gardens for the first time since lockdown: exactly then, our last visit was in March 2020, just before everything shut down. We were expecting to renew our membership cards, so it was a pleasant surprise that they had been extended, to make up for the gardens' closure.
The gardens were in summer holiday mood: there were some bright plantings, especially near the greenhouses (which are not yet open), but the real abundance was in the wild - or semi-wild, areas. Here's a field scabious, from the flora of the Magnesian limestone:
and the 'invasive species' enclosure was overflowing, even the brambles (prominently labelled) drowning under a tide of rosebay willowherb. But you'd never know that the approach to the Japanese cherry circle is a carpet of golden daffodils in spring, and the flowering cherries showed no sign of fruiting. Perhaps they don't?
( Elsewhere... )
The gardens were in summer holiday mood: there were some bright plantings, especially near the greenhouses (which are not yet open), but the real abundance was in the wild - or semi-wild, areas. Here's a field scabious, from the flora of the Magnesian limestone:
and the 'invasive species' enclosure was overflowing, even the brambles (prominently labelled) drowning under a tide of rosebay willowherb. But you'd never know that the approach to the Japanese cherry circle is a carpet of golden daffodils in spring, and the flowering cherries showed no sign of fruiting. Perhaps they don't?
( Elsewhere... )
