'Earth has nothing to show more fair'. This quotation from Wordsworth said it all. The Isobel Plantation is a cordoned off area in Richmond Park about 500 metres wide and the same across. I came to the plantation on a coach trip from a ladies club.
When we alighted from the coach what a sight met our eyes. The Rhododendrons were in full bloom. They were tiered, one bush on top of the other like a great wall of vivid colour lining the sides of the path ways. All the colours of the rainbow stretching up to the sky.
The plantation was set in walkways intermingled with little streams of clear water. As you walked along these pathways you felt that God’s hand was in this panorama. That he had used his paint box to create this breath taking scene to magnificent effect. It was too wonderful to be the work of man and too perfect to be other than the hand of God! As you wondered along the pathways this scene assailed your senses.
Your eyes were dazed by the striking beauty of nature in it, vivid, most beautiful. Your ears were overwhelmed with the sweet melody of the little streams as they gambolled over the sparkling stones. You could taste the coolness of the clear water, the freshness of the vegetation so crisp and sharp. The songbirds added beautiful background music to this scene. The whole effect was dazzling as hues of reds, blues, pinks, purples and all the colours of the spectrum bombarded your eyes. You could touch the velvety smoothness of the petals.
I felt the peace and wonder that true beauty brings. I walked around the gardens in awe and silence almost on tiptoe so as not break the spell and spoil the magic. Then it was time to go and I was very reluctance to join the bus for the return home journey.
The spell stayed with me for long time to come, filling me with peace and joy. I used my camera but nothing could recapture the wonder of the real experience of The Isobel Plantation. I felt that I had met with God’s creation in the flesh.
When we alighted from the coach what a sight met our eyes. The Rhododendrons were in full bloom. They were tiered, one bush on top of the other like a great wall of vivid colour lining the sides of the path ways. All the colours of the rainbow stretching up to the sky.
The plantation was set in walkways intermingled with little streams of clear water. As you walked along these pathways you felt that God’s hand was in this panorama. That he had used his paint box to create this breath taking scene to magnificent effect. It was too wonderful to be the work of man and too perfect to be other than the hand of God! As you wondered along the pathways this scene assailed your senses.
Your eyes were dazed by the striking beauty of nature in it, vivid, most beautiful. Your ears were overwhelmed with the sweet melody of the little streams as they gambolled over the sparkling stones. You could taste the coolness of the clear water, the freshness of the vegetation so crisp and sharp. The songbirds added beautiful background music to this scene. The whole effect was dazzling as hues of reds, blues, pinks, purples and all the colours of the spectrum bombarded your eyes. You could touch the velvety smoothness of the petals.
I felt the peace and wonder that true beauty brings. I walked around the gardens in awe and silence almost on tiptoe so as not break the spell and spoil the magic. Then it was time to go and I was very reluctance to join the bus for the return home journey.
The spell stayed with me for long time to come, filling me with peace and joy. I used my camera but nothing could recapture the wonder of the real experience of The Isobel Plantation. I felt that I had met with God’s creation in the flesh.
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This is a place I must visit, the discription of the flowers and the streams are really beautiful. I can see them in my mind, and look forward to seeing them in person.
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