My journey each school day took me through the Belfast Botanic Gardens. Cast iron and glass...wonderful.
In the mornings it was always a run... I was a sleepyhead...
...the home journey often saw me with friends walking through the wonderful glass house and past the exotic plants contained within.
Banana trees and palms, plants from the South American forests in the hottest part of the glass house.....steamy and junglelike.
Like so many of these amazing structures...it was decimated during the years of the troubles...but has now been restored back to it's full glory.
The next glass house that took my breath away was in Croxteth Walled Garden and held the remains of the plant collection belonging to Liverpool Botanics. I believe that they were held also in Sefton Park Glasshouse in Liverpool.
Once a month in 2018 I walked in it with a friend @barbarajones met on the BA art degree course at Wirral Met.
But this week I went with a Warrington Camera Club ..and explored the newly renovated Glass House in Walton Gardens. We used to go to the gardens when the children were small and even then the glass houses were desolate...no plants..no care..but Warrington Borough Council have done an amazing job to bring them back to use and wonder...
.... and Myerscough College keep the plants looking their best..
There's something magic about walking into a hot, spicey, exotic, steamy plant house.
The colours assault your senses...and everywhere is water... dripping from leaves...spilling into floral cups...fish swimming in patterned pools.
Cups of colour...creating tiny swimming pools...
Lovely to see you back in blogland Gerry - reading your post on a very cold day I am transported to that glasshouse with its hot, steamy atmosphere and its exotic flowers and ferns.
ReplyDeleteThankyou Pat..x
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