These photos taken yesterday (third week of August) show some of the archtectural and natural beauty in Glenarn Gardens at Rhu. I spoke to Mike who was out with the mower having been held back by all the rain we've been having. He was getting ready for the Annual Horticultural show. His role is to set up the bee-keeping exhibit.
"To find beauty in form instead of making it depend on ornament, is the goal..." was said by Albert Loos in Katherine Swift's book "The Morville Hours". Here are some photos of Nature's beauty of form.
Tiger lily perfection* * * * * * * * * * * *
BELL SHAPED FORMS:
I don't know the name of this beautiful purple-blue flower. I need to speak to Mike.
Heather in the rock quarry garden area.* * *
BOTTLE SHAPED FORMS:
If ever there was beauty of form this bottle, found in the greenhouse, has it. Broad at the base for stability, it has the sort of shape I wish we would find in flower vases or coffee cups ... or even, Maggie, wine decanters!
And to go into the bottle: some 'bottle-brush'. (If I recall, so named by Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's expedition to Australia.) Very much an Australian flower with all its stamens. The bush at Glenarn was 10 feet tall and had an abundance of flowers.
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