allerton gardens

Hard to imagine that I was walking round these extraordinarily beautiful gardens this morning (I"m now back in LA) - the Allerton Gardens, on Kauai - the fantasy outdoor world that a couple of gay guys started to put together in the 1930s, and that is a collection of tropical plants; (lichenous) statuary; lots of water features;

Italianate cherubs;

Muscovy Ducks (this one is called Henrietta);

frogs sitting on water lilies (and there are lots of tilapia down there, too;

Moreton Bay figs (these turn up - these very ones - in Jurassic Park - indeed the tour over-emphasized film sets rather than plants, but still ...);

ingenious horizontal fountains/water ways;

and a Buddha in a bamboo grove.

Oh, yes, and lichen.