Botanic Gardens Walk.

 As a member of our Royal Botanic Gardens Photo Group, our brief this month was to photograph some of the buildings within the gardens.This is one side of an old rest house called The William Tell Rest House.

 This fancy little 'cupola' is pure decoration, nothing functional at all, but it just finishes off the shelter  beautifully.

                                                          This one is from the other side.

 The Plant and Craft Cottage dates from early in the garden's history and has recently been refurbished. Walking up behind the building I rather liked these old chimneys, the lichen covered slate roof and the rather odd flashing where the chimney joins onto the roof.

                              This is one of a pair of narrow decorative windows in the cottage.

An outside wall panel in another rest house. Goodness knows how long it would have taken craftsmen to make these wooden panels.