Blossoming Into Competitive Blooming

Today we took the short trip back to Great Comp Garden - it's no more than 15 minutes from door to door in the car but it seems like you've travelled much further afield as it feels like you're in a different world altogether as soon as you arrive.
We've visited on many occasions over the years and it has been a rich source of images for my blip journal in the past and today again proved to be no exception. Today's visit was actually engendered by a report on our local news that the garden's magnificent magnolia trees were now in full bloom and it strongly encouraged you to see them for yourself, so we needed no further invitation.
It may be a relatively small garden at just over 7 acres but it really does pack a punch, especially in the spring when the garden erupts into bloom with over 80 magnolias in at least 50 different varieties, under-planted with large drifts of hellebores and bulbs with a supporting cast of azaleas and rhododendrons in a diversity of colours.
My main image just had to be a celebration those magnificent magnolia blooms - so I took a shot up into the canopy of this particular tree and it really did feel like you were being enveloped by a sea of glorious pink petals!
The extras are of different scenes from around the garden which I hope encapsulate what a beautiful spectacle it was. I really loved how all the array of blossoming trees and flowering plants felt like they were competing with each other to show off their best attributes - blooms in their pomp at Great Comp! :-)