Art and Nature

Today we visited Waterperry Gardens in remote Oxfordshire countryside, rather waterlogged. I ended up with a choice of several pictures: one bloom of the most beautiful Hellebore I have yet found; an old garden ornament surrounded by overgrown undergrowth and trees, rather forlorn; the ancient bole of a tree, warts an' all; a would-be prehistoric dugout stuck in a Storm Frank swamp of tangle, water and mud; and this wet lawn, grasses bed and tree hedge study in Gardener's Art. I took the shot, but the art lay in the mind of the Head Gardener and his crew.