Herbaceous dude!

Yesterday's Address to the Herbalists was a hoot! They were a great crowd - very appreciative and forgiving and full of questions during and after my slightly frenzied delivery (I told them about the energy-raising properties of bananas and how speakers who eat one 20 minutes before kick-off enjoy the sudden burst they bring, but I didn't say how much coffee I'd had!). I prepared a great show of images from my garden and broader world and they drew praise as well. My co-presenter, though we spoke separately, was Lynda Hallinan, NZ Gardener Editor-at-large (and she was, being pregnant to a man who himself was 14lbs at birth!). She too had images, hers of gardens she'd visited around the globe, as well as some from her own garden and wedding day. We both used my computer (wonderful system, Ubuntu - flexible, accommodating, fast, reliable) and as she downloaded her slide show to the hard drive and left it there, I can lift images from there to here with ease :-) I'm sure Lynda won't mind if I use a couple from the 'world trip' section.
The first is this shot of a 'wall garden', where a massive vertical perennial garden has been constructed to cover the entire side of a high-rise building in  Madrid.
It's pretty impressive.

Green wall - Peter Blanc