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Saturday 19th Oct  2013 Early Au

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Sunday 13th Sept  2015 Early Autumn Helen and Peter in Kew Gardens again. Mainly flowers and red appeals to me!

The Palm House

Fountain

The Campanile

Griffin

Colourful Flower Beds

Dahlias closer up

Hibiscus sinensis

Nymphaea 'Tropic Sunset'

 

 A newly identified species of water lily, Nymphaea, as yet unnamed was discovered in  Australia. This one on the left was grown in Kew from unidentified collected seeds. See Kew News

Is this a colour variation of the one to the left?

Nymphaea 'Foxfire'

Nymphaea Green Smoke

Nymphaea 'Saint Louis Gold'

Young Victoria Regia Lily, uncurls

Dutchman's Pipe, Aristolochia  littoralis

Aristolochia littoralis

He always seems to prefer this perch.

Line of Heraldic Animals

Bizzie Lizzie carpet

Replica Greek Vase, consulting the Delphic Oracle?

Eucalyptus

Water Hyacinth

Red Passion Flower

Grevillea 'Coastal Sunset'

Allamanda cathartica

A Single Flower

Giant Passion Flower, Passiflora quadrangularis

And its fruit

Nymphaea 'Saint Louis Gold'

Blue water lily

Victoria Regia Lily pond

Gusmania

Air plants

Aechmea  Blue Rain

A "Princess"

Gusmania Tempo Red

Red Passion Flower

Aechmea Fasciata "Primera"

Purple Orchids

Detail (a bug?)

White Orchids

Heliconia psittacorum

Astrophytum ornatum

Mammillaria Geminispina

Mother-in- laws Seat, Echinocereus grusonii

Aloe reitzii (yellow)

A Detail

Living Stones, Aizoaceae Conophyium recisum

Mandevilla laxa

Mandevilla laxa flower

Peacock

Cactus

Colchicum autumnale

Rock Garden

Cyclamen Graecum

New Alpine House

Rock Garden waterfall

Cyclamen in the Alpine House

Zephyranthes verecunda

Campanula isophylla

Cyclamen Graecum

Rhodophiala bifida

Zephyranthes verecunda

Biarum ditschianum

Gravel Bed in the Alpine House

Grasses in Prairie Planting

A "Sower" broadcasts seed

Herbs and Spices display

Playing in the leaves

Autumn Crocus

Conversation piece

Resting

Seesaw

Sunday Times reader

The Broad Walk

Curved Bridge, Sackler Crossing

Pagoda Avenue

Swan Family learning to fly

Reclining Mother and Child by Henry Moore

The Palm House

Orange Rose

In the Palm House Aquarium, a Mini Dory

Tasselled File Fish

Aquarium under the Palm House

Terrapin

Blue and Orange Discus fish

Piranha

Lemon Fish

Copperband Butterfly Fish

Garden Eel looking out

Puffer Fish

Razor Fish swim vertically heads down

Greek Temple replica

Kew Gardens Station Buffet

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