Rather than just mooching around looking at the plants, we decided to do some sketches at the Botanical Gardens.  You can see Gemma’s sketch book if you look carefully!

As usual, Gemma and Lucy were very encouraging to me!

There were lots of different things to draw, and discover, in spite of it being autumn.  We were very taken with the pitcher plants.  These were just a few.  There were so many sizes!!

The Bonsai collection was amazing.

Allegedly, there were real peacocks, but we only saw this one.

There was a handsome aviary which we couldn’t get close to because of avian flu.

It was a lovely day, we were lucky with the weather and came home tired but happy.