Today we took a field trip a ways out of Charlottesville to a private estate garden. "Garden" is actually an understatement-- the land and plantings were so extensive, the place is more like an arboretum AND botanic garden.
One of the gardeners led the tour, and showed us a lot of beautiful and unusual plants. The owner was not around, so we were wondering to ourselves who exactly lives this kind of life, in this kind of place. This photo of the tennis court, weeping Celtis specimen, and the Blue Ridge in the background seemed to me to epitomize the place!
There were several amazing old oaks near the house, including this one, where branches parted then grew back together to form an O!
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