Pen's Nest

Okay, solariana asked me to talk about Gardens and Flowers, but I have allowed myself to be wildly distracted by the archives of TLo's Musical Mondays.

Anyway. Wow, gardens, flowers, where do I start?

I love going round big, open Gardens. There are always so many fabulous flowers, shrubs, trees and other vegetation to see. We seem to manage an outing from Camp to somewhere, these days—I remember going off to a lovely place last year where the bees were so enthusiastically clustered around the salvias fringing the rose bushes that the air hummed. And of course, huge, sweeping gardens around manor-sized houses can really display their flowers en masse, which is glorious.
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