Butterstream Gardens

Good Morning!  Welcome to our garden.

The skies are clear, so it is a great day to spend outside.

This is our pool garden.
Our little dinner will be in the loggia tonight.

I still have a few things to do like filling the pond, and planting some annuals.

You're most welcome to help me.

This leafy plant is the Fake-us Benjamina , and that there is Magnus Magnifera Fictitious.

 

Both indiginous to China.

 

This here is a Nymphaea Nondorata Crepeus... and that there is ...

 

You're not much interested to learn the names of all the plants, are you?

Well, perhaps the names of the fish then...

This here is a Tancho, that one is an Asagi.

My favourite is the Tancho Sanke....

Not very interesting, huh?

I'll put our hose away while you feed our little fish.

Hey, you still staring at our fish?

 I know, you're puzzled why they are not moving....

Took years, but I trained them that way.

Now come help me with the flower beds. Our perennials  are forever spilling over onto the gravel.

We had better get a move on, it'll soon be midday.

Like I said, sun's HOT today!

Our job is done.  What do you think?

Now we can set the table in the loggia, ready for our little dinner tonight.

You move all the little things like the little stone bench and the iron table,

while I get our two kitchen chairs.

Everything set?

I think we are done.

All that remains for us to do is...

 Light the candles,
and then we can...

Leave.

YOU thought dinner was for US!

Whatever gave you THAT idea?

I'm just the gardener...

Now make sure you close our little gate properly.

We do not want any unwanted visitors here!

On a more serious note:

This little diorama is (loosely) based on the Pool Garden, also sometimes referred to the Temple Garden of the real Butterstream Garden, ONE of my favourite gardens.  It is generally considered to be the most beautiful garden on the Emerald Isle.

Set in County Meath, it has been a long time in the making and the life work of Jim Reynolds.

Unfortunately, the extensive gardens has not been open to the public since 2004.

Changing the world into miniature...
One thing at a time.