A mid-week, late morning, late September tour of the RHS Gardens at Wisley. Blue skies peppered liberally with white clouds (today was a brighter, warmer clearer-skies day than yesterday, but probably overbright for my photographic skills so here we are …) It is still quite definitely late summer, rather than full-on Autumn. Very few of the trees were in their stained-glass garb of gold, ruby and russet, though the Liquidamber Lane Roberts was putting on a little show with much […]

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