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On Saturday (10/05/03), we drove in David's not-so-shiny new-ish car (3000+ miles in 30 days!) to Isabella Plantation, a 50 year-old azalea and rhodedendron-crammed enclosure in Richmond Park, Surrey. Each year in late spring, a riot of colour appears in an otherwise emerald-green sea of hundred-year-old oaks, leaves hanging down to a perfect height - nibbled by the royal deer which roam the park. A perfectly beautiful afternoon walk, past small streams crossed by log-bridges, and hidden glens fringed by dark green foliage, and carpeted with a mist of bluebells. Cotton-grass and iris-fringed ponds are populated with Australian black swans, and multi-coloured (mandarin?) ducks. |
