Winter textures
This weekend I paid another visit to Mount Usher in Ashford, Wicklow. It was not the best time to go, despite the lovely sunny day, but the lack of flowers made me look at bark and mosses and the textures of the plants.
The furrowed back of taxodium
An old azalea supported masses of feathery lichen
I almost like ruscus best when the stems are dead and skeltonised
Hairy leaves and hard buds of a rhododendron
The distinctive bark of aesculus (horse chestnut)
Alliums sprouting up through the sinuous taxus (yew) roots
Piitosporum shadows on eucalyptus back
Lichens encrusting apple bark
Hakonechloa in its autumn finery
Moss on stewartia trunk
Polypodium and moss on magnolia trunk
Pinus montezuma in sparkling form
Moss draping prunus branches
The dead flowers of a hydrangea (possibly H, aspera)
The perfectly groomed foliage of a conifer – not sure which!
Perfectly placed foliage on a hypericum
The Biking Gardener 
Great pictures….
Thank you 🙂
I don’t know how I missed these posts, the images are beautiful!
Thank you – there is beauty everywhere if you look hard enough 🙂
I agree completely, thanks so much.
We have that Eucaliptus tree, the bark looks great when wet!