A leisurely start to the day again. We were dropped at the Ventnor Botanical Gardens, which were built on the site of a former TB hospital. The gardens were arranged down a hill, giving graceful terraces and views. The first section I visited was medicinal plants, but they gave no information on the uses of some quite common plants, so it wasn’t as interesting as it might have been. My eye and my camera were drawn by some elegantly tall, showy flowers of red, yellow, and orange. After some searching for their name, I discovered them to be Canna Lilies , yet another plant I’ve now seen from books I have read. The “Black Knight” variety was splendid with very dark red/green leaves and brilliant orange/red flowers. They rose over my head. From here we walked
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