Monet's Queen Street Garden

Out with U3A Garden Group this afternoon, visiting New Town Gardens with guide Jean Bareham of Greenyonder Tours, who is better known as the author of 'Hidden Gardens Of The Royal Mile'.

We took in gardens in East Princes Street, Register House, the former Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters and St Andrew's Square before proceeding to the private gardens of Queen Street, which are owned by those properties which overlook them and thus not open to the public.

Although the East garden is large and impressive, the Mid(dle) garden was my favourite, containing a large pond, where Robert Louis Stevenson, as a child, might have played or hunted for frogspawn, we noted two species of pond snails and waterlilies. Despite the absence of a bridge these reminded me of Monet so I cropped the image to focus on them.