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We started at the Rose Garden where there were not many plants in flower and not many buds or new growth, our garden is better!

Bedding outside the Palm House	Giant hibiscus		Rosa 'Molineux'
Rosa 'Skylark'	Rosa 'Wisley 2008'		Momordica charantia - Bitter Melon
Mimosa pudica	Hydrocleys nymphoides	Victoria boliviana	Dalechampia dioscorefolia
	Possibly Passiflora coccinea using post processing and D lighting	using +2 compensation
Colocasia - Pharoah's mask	Hibiscus	We went around the back of the Waterlily House for the first time
Cedrus atlantica large cones	Male (pollen) cones (on the right) are about 5 cm long, erect, they release clouds of yellow pollen in the fall. Female (seed) cones (on the left) are barrel-shaped, upright, 5-7.5 cm long, and require 2 years to mature.	Cedrus atlantica small cones	Magnolia grandiflora
Red hot poker	Ginger	Alpine House
Pickerel weed	Tigridia pavonia	Lagerstroemia x Tuscarora	Sky over the Sion view
Lion on the arch on Sion House		A fox appeared and sloped off
Scadoxus puniceus		Solanum lacinatum	Fungi
Ginger	Brugsmania with a sport	Blue bamboo	Brassaiopsis
Delphiniums in the newly planted area where the Mediterranean plants used to be. My train came in before Matthews we had a good day despite the logger failing.