The park is very large (500 acres), and contains a wide variety of sculptures, as well as four interior galleries with more sculptures and other art. We went round a fair bit of the park, and all of the galleries.
Multi-stemmed birch and ha-ha bridge at YSP (© Ian 2012)
We rather liked this multi-stemmed birch, which looks like it might be an over-grown coppicing stool. The bridge behind, as you might guess from the cut-out letters, spans a dry-stone walled ha-ha.
Jonathan Borofsky's 'Molecule Man' at YSP (photo © Ian 2012)
Cedar sculpture in the Camellia House, YSP (photo © Ian 2012)
Inside a rhododendron (© Ian 2012)
A bank of rhododendrons was outside the Camellia House; they're obviously rather old, and the stems and roots have become massive and entangled.
Waterfall (© Ian 2012)
Primarily, this photo's to remind me of the sort of waterfall we'd like to build above the pond.
Alec Finlay's 'The Bee Library' at YSP (photo © Ian 2012)
This is one of 24 bee-related books that have been converted into bee habitats and hung around the Lakeside section of the park.
I didn't take a photo, but outside the Bothy Gallery there's a curved south-facing wall, against which have been grown a series of cordon/fan trained apples. Some of them, by the tags, have been there over 200 years—and it shows. The trunks are 9" across, and they're big, vigorous, and covered in fruit. It's a shame we have no sheltered south-facing wall, as I'd love to grow some cordon fruit trees. Never mind: half standards it is.
I didn't take a photo, but outside the Bothy Gallery there's a curved south-facing wall, against which have been grown a series of cordon/fan trained apples. Some of them, by the tags, have been there over 200 years—and it shows. The trunks are 9" across, and they're big, vigorous, and covered in fruit. It's a shame we have no sheltered south-facing wall, as I'd love to grow some cordon fruit trees. Never mind: half standards it is.
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