Thanks David for a fascinating commentary on this event, I was so sorry not to make this event as it's my town of Birth and formative years , over the years still my favourite place for photography in this country.
  The wonderful Botanical gardens are always a pleasure in my memory and I have wondered them through all four seasonsmany times with camera in hand.
  I will cancel everything to make this event next year,  hopefully you will be there once again, along  with Colin Dexter, a writer whose full collection of works sit alongside yours in my bookcase.