The water garden used to be a swimming pool. Ganna Walksa, the creator of the garden, kept a narrow lane as a pool and filled the rest with water lilies. We weren’t there at the right time to see them blooming, but it was still a very calm part of the garden.

Near the house, there was a mass planting of Draecena. These are monocots – so more closely related to grass than most trees. They produce no real wood, but still get very large. I love the dichotomous branching.

The fern garden was possibly my favorite part of the garden, so I had a really hard time choosing just one picture to put here. This fiddlehead was just incredible. It was bigger than a fist.