Amazing Plants

Amazing Plants display at Charnwood Museum, another of our favourite haunts. The cafe's good as well.

The museum is in Queen's Park in Loughborough.

Long winter shadows from the sun. It was reasonably warm for January.

Late 19th century botanical models, models used to teach structure of plants in universites around the world.

Flower pressings

Ferns to decorate ceramics, flowers everywhere.

Medicines, we wouldn't have these without plants.

Asprin Tablets made from the leaves of Willows and pill making equipment.

Tabacco and smoking.

Bradgate Park and Newtown Linford

Bradgate Park - We have been here many many times as well, join us on our walk.

We finished here at the newly opened this year Tea Rooms.

The old and the new go well together.

We sat outside today but hopefully as this one is rather more modern than the older one it will be open in the winter as well.

Nothing jumped in my basket here, its very pretty but rather expensive. 

I am spoilt, at the nursery where I work the original selling prices are still a lot cheaper than this places "to clear", prices.

Beacon Hill

Today we went for a walk in the sunshine around Beacon Hill Country Park. We have been many times before but its always a pleasure whether in darkest November or summer sunshine in July.

Beacon Hill Country Park has wild flower meadows and grassland

The views are quite special and best of all, its not much of a climb either.

Is it just me that can see a Baboons face in the rock?

Or the human here?

Thankfully, these didn't mind us, the other children running around or the dogs.

RSPCA Open Garden

This garden opens twice a year in aid of the RSPCA. Due to the weather we have missed it for the last couple of openings at least.

This weekend wasn't looking good either.

However, plants do like the rain, so all was well.

Seed Roof

Isn't this walkway lovely?

I did ask him to pose for me but he wasn't interested.

 The boot is good fun, and makes a great planter.

Weekend

This street looked a lot more inviting in real life.

Planting around the Church with the Old Grammar School in the background

Red, White and Blue Planting scheme.

The River was very high after all the rain

We sat here and read the paper.

I took this photo mainly as a record of plants which grow well in the shade.

To finish, after all that walking around.

Barracca

We have been to quite a few NGS Open Gardens, but this one was the best by far.

Join us on a walk around.

I loved the house.