Walking around the gardens yesterday we were, as usual, impressed by the plants and planting. However it pays to keep alert because you may just miss something different like this:
It was to the side of the main path where a smaller, almost unnoticeable, path diverges; if it wasn’t for the lightness of the foliage we would have missed it. This is one of a group:
You can just see the metal plant label on the right – I photographed this to ensure we had a record of the name (which I double checked…) Update: this is Acanthus mollis ‘Tasmanian Angel’.
But we also saw one of the cats asleep:
Perhaps I should have taken a video as it tail was wagging about quite vigorously
Towards the end of our visit, we were walking back to the plant sales area (one of my wife’s favourite parts of the gardens!) through the north garden. I stopped to look around for anything I might have missed when my wife pointed out this pitcher plant:
The plant was in a pot hanging from a tree just above head height – when we first walked through you tend to look down at the planting so it was easy to miss. Whilst I was sitting in the plant sales area, I discovered 4 more above me head.