Garden melee

What the photos don't reveal is that degree of popularity afforded to the gardens. They were absolutely heaving with people, and each of the photos was the result of immense patience or sheer luck finding a nanosecond when nobody was pushing through or blocking the view.

In summary several of the gardens were very nice but most were fairly average, and the whole event was rather spoiled by its own success and the number of visitors that were milling around and queuing for garden after garden.