Wendy, I thought of you when we drove down the plantation drive, with enormous live oaks flanking the drive, thinking that if Gunnison Hall had designed their drive with such long-lived trees, your research on the drive would have been greatly simplified. The trees in this photo are similar to the ones lining the drive, but are located along a side drive, so the live oaks are only on one side of this drive. You can imagine however, how lovely the main drive is, lined with these mammoth trees, their massive branches overhanging the entrance, dripping spanish moss, with ferns lining the tops of the lower branches.
Since Nancy and Lynn had seen the interior of the plantation house not long ago on an earlier trip to Charleston, we skipped going in and just spent hours wandering the various gardens, something that was beautiful even though the spring blossom season is still a few weeks away; still enough camellias and daffodils as well as some early azaleas, redbud, cherry and a few other plants were displaying early blooms to give us a foretaste of what these gardens will offer in a few weeks. Sue - I have not seen so many boxwoods used in so many ways EVER, not only at the gardens of this plantation but but throughout the city of Charleston. A few more photos just to tempt everyone's desire to visit this area:
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| Yup - That's a 'gator sunning himself, nicely sharing the platform with a couple of large turtles. |
2 comments:
Ahhh, you do remember, boxwoods are my favorite. Charleston is a beautiful place to visit, there is so much history there.
Of course I remember - you introduced me to boxwoods.
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