A Gallery in the Gardens

Set among the flowers and shrubs in Rougemont and Northernhay Gardens this year are some artistic surprises - reproductions of eleven paintings from the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.

George Philip Reinagle (1802-1835)
A first rate man-of-war driving on a reef of rocks, and foundering in a gale, 1826.

Albert Charles Bown
Bedford Circus after the Blitz, 1942

Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857-1947)
The 22nd January 1901 - Reading the news of Queen Victoria's death in a Cornish Cottage

As on my previous visits the gardens are in excellent condition with flowerbeds full of colour and not a single piece of litter to be seen - a real tribute to Exeter City Council's Parks and Open Spaces Department.

Rougemont Gardens

I went through the little archway from sunny Northernhay Gardens into cloudier Rougemont Gardens next door and by the time I left there it was raining.


This is a Strawberry Tree.




I have yet to identify this unusual tree.




A Cream-streaked Ladybird on an oak leaf.


This gatehouse was built by William the Conqueror soon after 1066 as part of the Norman castle of Rougemont.