Allerton garden

Tuesday I toured the Allerton garden, where I have been working, on the guided tour as a guest. By coincidence the tour guide was Frank, the same guy we had in February last visit.

The Allerton is unique as a somewhat formal garden with statuary and some structures in a tropical setting. Organized as "rooms" partitioned by greenery, it's much like walking through a museum.

For now let me put up some photos and work on a proper writeup of the garden. The Allerton is a wonderful place, as you can see, at the end of the rainbow. Highly recommended, even if you don't like garden tours particularly.

Lawai beach as seen approaching the Allerton

Morton Bay fig tree - famous for the Jurassic Park dinosaur eggs

Diana

Friday I trimmed philodendron on left.

One of many fountains throughout the garden

Mermaid

Water feature

The water feature above is quite remarkable in design, copied from just such a fountain Allerton saw in Italy at what is now the prime minister's residence. With just a gravity feed of water from above, each of the small chambers down the gently sloping line is separated by a mahogany wood dam at each of the narrow points that the water flows over. At the top (far end) the water flows smoothly ... about half way down it begins to oscillate ... and by the bottom the water is coming in waves pulsating about one per second over the last dam. Based on Allerton's description the garden staff cast this and they say it just worked first time.