There are two large rose gardens, one on each side of the lawn. Odile Masquelier is checking out a rose in this picture.
There were brilliant yellow sulfur butterflies all over this cuphea plant.
Gilles Noisette wading through the rose bed to get a picture on his digital camera. He's working on a website of Noisette roses, and when I get the address I'll include a link here.
There is a huge grasshopper in this photo, eating the leaves of 'G. Nabonnand'.
The incredibly long live oak allée in front of Boone Hall, heavily draped in "Spanish Moss."
Marlea Graham, Margaret Rose and Phyllis McLaughlin.
The Middleton Oak is the second largest live oak in South Carolina.
This is the plant from which tea is made: Camellia sinensis.
This is the "Wee Cooper" of Middleton Place.
One of many charming statues of children and animals.
Odile is looking at the frogbaby statue, one of my favorites.
Gilles Noisette took this picture of me with Mama and Baby bear in the children's garden. This was another of my favorites.
The Palmetto Garden. Palmetto is the state tree, and appears on the state flag and most souvenirs of South Carolina. (I also tried the locally brewed Palmetto brand beer, which is excellent.)
Riders of the Dawn by A. A. Weinman
In Rockville, Marilyn Raff tries out a "joggle bench", a uniquely Charlestonian courting devise. The ends have rockers, and the courting couple sit at opposite ends, and bounce and rock until they end up together in the middle.
View from the balcony at "high point" of the tables set for our luncheon under the oak tree.