Garden contrasts

Morning, I joined our local Greening Group  work party that plants and maintains all our town's public green spaces and flowerbeds. This time the focus was on the small community garden jammed in one corner of a car park between a discount store and the health centre. It was originally started by one of the GPs who worked there and to our surprise Dr Bob himself strolled past. (He's retired now and living elsewhere but was back in town for the folk festival.) I missed him but instead caught these two members of our party who turned up in pirate garb, as you do, being snapped by a third.
(The main object of our attention was the highly invasive Three Cornered Leek that someone had unwisely introduced to the bed.)

Afternoon, and a very different garden hosted another folk festival event:  Cobbler's Child, a Gloucestershire band playing a mix of new and traditional tunes on a variety of instruments. Half the members live on the inland waterways and some of the music related to the canal boat lifestyle. It was a bit soporific to be honest so I wandered around the  little patch of paradise that is Dyffryn Fernant Garden, a gem of a place that encapsulates one woman's creative vision, brought to fruition over the past 30 years. The wild and the natural meld so seamlessly with the astute and artistic planting and the subtly-placed sculptural effects that you see the place afresh each time you visit. A few extras to give the flavour.