The Island Bed

Island beds look totally different from different viewpoints - this is the general idea! My Island Bed looks at its best when viewed side-on, standing on the (hopefully green) house lawn. The plumes of Toe Toe seem to fill the middle of the garden.

This is it - the ultimate, definitive photograph of the Island Bed, taken in the summer months early in the year 2005.

Shrubs in the Island Bed

Shrubs like the small Pittosporum in the top right of the garden grow slowly in the sandy soil here. The flaxes are still modest in size, and it's a case of playing spot-the-specimen-tree (a Dogwood, very beautiful, and slow to gain any height).

The big evergreen Choisya shrub (Mexican Oraqnge Blossom) on the left is a survivor - in winter it overpowers the scale of the Island Bed, and I decide it is coming out. Hmm...

In the background you can see more flaxes in the house gardens, and the distant Stables. The Moosey Garden is a very flax-ful garden!