Sunday Selections # 109

Welcome back to Sunday Selections!

This once-a- week-meme was originally begun by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, as a way to showcase some of the many photos we all take, but don't get around to showing on our blogs.

The rules are very simple:-

1. post photos of your choice, old or new, under the Sunday Selections title

2. link back to me, River, somewhere in your post

3. leave me a comment so that I know you've joined in and can come over and see what you've posted.

I usually go with a theme for my Sunday Selections and this week I'm continuing with some photos of the Botanic Garden. 

Specifically, the old fern house, my favourite place. 

It's a little humid in there so I can never stay long, but I love it and go there every time I am visiting the garden.

The fern house is entered by crossing the bridge you see to the left of the photo.
Below the stone wall is a dry creek bed, from this angle you can't see that there is a drop of a couple of feet from the grassed area.

The roof from the inside. It's a little patchy now, in times past it was thickly covered and much more shady in there.
I imagine it will be again when repairs are made. 

About a metre inside the entrance, the path branches off in three directions.
This is the central path.
The right hand path circles the perimeter and arrives back at the entrance as the left path. The central path connects with it about halfway around.

The right hand path. I usually start down this path, then come down the central path and continue up the left hand path and back down the central path again.

Something white and pretty against large green leaves. I recognise the leaves as Hosta, but have never seen one flowering before, so can't be sure the flowers aren't something else growing up from beneath.

I don't know what this is, but I like the speckled leaves.
There are plant labels, but I so very often forget to look at them.


 

 There are many areas of big mossy rocks and I sometimes sit on them and do a little thinking or just gazing. 

This is the left hand path, (or the end of the right hand path if you prefer), showing the roof meeting the side wall. I would love to have such a fern house in my yard.

Here we see the entrance bridge from the inside on my way out again.
Here you can more clearly see the drop in levels from the grassed area to the creek bed.

The Elephant's Child also does a Sunday Selections, why not pop on over and see her photos.