I love watching the way light plays with plants & flowers. A dash of sunlight can change the whole view of a garden, suddenly highlighting a plant. And visiting a garden at different times can create a different picture of that garden.  And it’s not just garden borders that can create interest & colour.

I love the shapes & patterns that show on these gunnera leaves. To me the view looks jungle like. Huge leaves dominate the view, stems like small tree trunks shoot up to huge umbrella sized leaves. The veins of the leaves can be seen, the detail quite clear. I could have spent longer among this amazing foliage, wandering beneath them in wonder. Looking skyward. I like the randomness of the stems shooting upward.

This scene reminds me of visiting Abbotsbury Gardens on the Dorset coast, many years ago. In typical English fashion it rained. We discovered a handful of garden visitors caught like us by the suddenness of the rain, sheltering under a number of giant gunnera leaves.