The dogs were very short changed yesterday because the rain didn't stop all day so I togged up late afternoon and we set off for the outer gardens of Colonsay House. We walked around the neglected water gardens and I managed to snap a few photos before my camera got wet and decided it had had enough, and just stopped!
The giant gunnera, Gunnera manicata, Chilean rhubarb, plants are so huge, extraordinary and rather prehistoric, that I keep taking photos of them, and then deleting most of them them in iPhoto! However, I have to try and show how enormous these leaves are, and if I say they are slightly larger than the size of a table for two, I hope that gives some scale! That's just one leaf, and rather surreal. The other photos show the flower spikes, also huge!
Beautiful gunnera - amazing - natural umbrella.
ReplyDeleteLovely xx