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		The bedding showing the Chihuly glass to advantage
	Waterlily House It was so hot and humid that my lens was steamed up for many minutes	Ethereal White, Persian Pond	Kew's 'Kabuki'

Lotus	Gardener clearing plants
Lacebark Pine Pinus bungeana	The bark	Cardoon seedhead	Canna outside the Princess of Wales Conservatory
		Amazon lily in the open	The Conservatory Grevillea 'Coastal Sunset'
Beautiful young leaves	Hibiscus		Victoria Regina water lilies
Reflection	Red passionflower	Hymenocallis
Scarlet autumn colour	Taken at 1/500 sec at f4.5 to counter the wind	Sternbergia	Ptilotus manglesii
Jamesbrittenia bergae	Habranthus aff tubispathus	Lobelia cardinalis	From the Sackler Crossing
Cattails & Copper Birch Reeds			Temperate House
	Hibiscus		Cupressus cashmeriana
Bauhinia blakeana	Golden lotus banana: the flower of Musella lasiocarpa, native to the Yunnan province of China, resembles a lotus before opening, hence its common name. Useful, just not for eating. Strangely it’s a close relative of banana, but not edible in the same way. The underground stem (rhizome) is eaten as a vegetable, its flower is used for honey and it is sometimes fermented for wine making. Its leaves are used as pig fodder and weaving material, and it has several medicinal uses.
			Chir Pine - Pinus roxburghii
	Syzygium paniculatum - Magenta Lilli Pilli	Tibouchina urvilleana
Solanum wendlandii			Temperate House
A remontant hemerocallis	Reflections		We had an ice-cream before catching trains quickly at Kew Gardens Station. I had a 15 min. wait at West Hampstead.