Canterbury Foothills Tussock Garden

11 May '06 9:38 am

Here's a real natural garden tour - up a valley in the tussock foothills in South Canterbury! I think the river is the Stour river, and the farm is called the Barossa Station. This is 'big' country, and the tussock colours are so warm. Aargh - how cold it gets when the sun goes down. And in winter - snow!

Absolutely wonderful to walk in on a sunny autumn day!

11 May '06 4:21 pm

I'm awestruck!! Such majestic beauty!
Thanks for sharing these awesome pics, Moosey! To be able to view them in their enlarged sizes and seeing nature's beautiful formation in great detail is truly a bonus for me, a city folk! Very Happy

11 May '06 7:24 pm

Yes! It would sound ridiculous, but this sort of magestic beauty can be also met... in the dry islands of The Aegean Sea in Greece -- like Santorini, especially the ....goats rockery!..Where you can meet similarly special flora and warm colours in Autumn. I wonder, is it the fact that they are all islands, with so similar , comparatively soft, temperatures during Winter and Summer ?

And, again, I am full of amazement for our planet's beauty! And it is rather small, isn'it?

Canterbury Foothills Tussock Garden

Canterbury Foothills Tussock Garden

Wow!

So similar... This wild beauty!