On a rare clear sunny day in the Christmas holidays we set off for RHS Wisley gardens to follow the enchanted story trail for the kids and for me to have a play with my new camera - so apologies for a slightly excessive number of pics. It looks like it may be nice again this weekend if you fancy a trip to Wisley (although the story trail has now gone), or you could go next week and they will have the butterflies in the glasshouse again (they are there until the beginning of March.) The girls enjoyed the story trail and running around the gardens but I was mainly taking pictures and experimenting with my new camera!
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| The house and canal with the fountain - taken while the girls were being entertained with stories of pirates and avocados in the Loggia! |
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| The weathervane on the Loggia - experimenting with my new big zoom and different lights. |
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| Reflections in the Walled Garden |
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| Fountain in the Country Garden |
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| Not sure what this is but was experimenting with closer shots with new camera and I liked the shape and colour. |
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| Fabulous colour of some chillies drying in a greenhouse |
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| Loved the shape of these fruit arches in the fruit demonstration garden. |
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| Pretty sure this one's a lettuce - looks good anyway! |
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| The leaves from a leek in the winter veg garden make a great pattern |
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| The greenhouse in the veg garden still looked great with the autumn pumpkin and gourd decorations. |
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| Little Miss watching the ducks on one of the ponds in the Rock Garden - one of them was whizzing around in and out of the water and being very funny. |
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| Bigger Miss in quiet contemplation |
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| The Glasshouse looking rather lovely in the winter sunshine. |
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| Experimenting with taking pictures into the sun at the Glasshouse lake. |
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| Though this fly/ant sculpture was rather cute! |
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| Listening to one of the story-tellers on the Enchanted Story Trail |
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| Late afternoon sunlight through a giant fan palm in the Glasshouse |
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| The girls learning about the life of plants underground in the 'cave' in the Glasshouse |
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| And finally some of the beautiful, natural Christmas decorations in the Glasshouse |
What great photos and a jolly good place to visit - or so I hear form many others too. Love that giant parsnip!!!
ReplyDeleteThat glasshouse looks wonderful - and that chilli plant is something else! Oh I need to visit this year for sure :)
Thanks for joining in again and sharing - I'll be dreaming of fruit arches tonight now!
Some fab photos there, love the giant fan palm, the chillies and the reflections x #HowDoesYourGardenGrow?
ReplyDeleteI went to Wisley back in the Summer for my birthday,It such a gorgeous place to visit with all the different areas of planting.
ReplyDeleteThat looks like a lovely place to visit and you have some stunning photos
ReplyDeleteThe picture of the walled garden reflections is just beautiful! It's so interesting to see how gardens change with the seasons.....
ReplyDeleteI went there before and love it! You have stunning photos!
ReplyDeleteOh gorgeous pictures. Looks like a lovely place to visit!
ReplyDeleteCharley over at PodcastDove has written about going here recently - and makes me really want to go! You've just added to that!
ReplyDeleteWonderful photos of a truly beautiful and magical place, no wonder you keep returning. It's great to hear that they have activities for the children and having butterflies in the glasshouse sounds lovely. Thanks for linking up and sharing your visit with Country Kids.
ReplyDeleteWow it looks fab... makes me want to go out and brave the cold. :)
ReplyDeleteLOVE that reflection! The light at the moment is lovely, isn't it, when you manage to catch it!
ReplyDeleteLooks like a great place to visit for outdoor fun!
ReplyDeleteWow those photos are awesome.
ReplyDeleteI've never visited but looks beautiful
Wonderful photots, you've even made lettuce look beautiful. I must go out a practise with my camera now!
ReplyDeleteFabulous. Love your photo experiments...keep them coming. Looks like a lovely way to spend the day #countrykids
ReplyDeleteI was digging the new camera shots (see what I did there....), I especially like that close up of the red and green foliage. So pretty.
ReplyDeletelooks like a wonderful day out in the fresh air! x
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pictures - the walled garden looks like our sunken garden at school did years ago!
ReplyDeleteWonderful pictures! It's be ages since I last went to RHS Wisley, and now you've inspired me to add it to my list of places to take my son to.
ReplyDeleteWow ohh wow that looks amazing .x
ReplyDeleteLovely photos. And you found a sunny day to capture it all!
ReplyDeleteBe never been to Wisley, but it looks lovely. I'll have to give it a go next time mother in law goes.
ReplyDeleteSome fabulous shots there. So glad you got to see the Enchanted Trial. We go to Wisley a lot and didn't get to see it - went on the first day and it was super busy. Had a fun walk instead though. It's great Wisley, love it :)
ReplyDeleteFantastic pictures. I think my favourite is the fruit arches.
ReplyDeleteI would love to have a garden like that :) That is amazing. I need to first learn about gardening I suppose :) x
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