West Somerset Railway
Discover Nature's Design, Form and Function
Looking at nature is a wonderful experience. Just take a walk in any country garden and you will discover some amazing designs and complex patterns that mother nature has created. Resently we visited Waterperry Gardens - eight acres of landscaped ornamental gardens, that are guaranteed to delight and inspire garden-lovers and artists from across the country and the world. Founded more than seventy years ago as a School of Horticulture for Ladies, the gardens at Waterperry have evolved into a stunning oasis of calm and beauty in the heart of the Oxfordshire countryside. It's not until you stop to smell the roses that you realize how complex the very nature of flowering plants are, and how wonderous they can be with their own unique methods of attracting insects (and us) to them. Nature can accomplish feats that engineers have only been able to dream of until now. But as scientists peer deeper into the cellular and molecular workings of nature, engineers are starting to find informa...
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