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14.7.16 Trip with Rita to see the newly opened Hive on a sunny day in a cold and rainy week |
 Geranium |
 Alstroemeria 'Indian Summer' |
Kniphofia - orange red-hot poker
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 Peacock |
 Centaurea montana alba |
 The Hive surrounded by wildflower 'downs' |
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 From below the installation |
 Part of the wildflower mix |
 From the platform to the dome of the hive |
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 Through the platform floor |
 Ricinus communis- -such glossy and textured leaves |
 Cannas |
 Exotic border outside the Princess Diana Glasshouse |
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inside the glasshouse
Grevillea 'Coastal Sunset' |
 Everlasting daisies - surprisingly scented |
 Bomarea hirtella |
 Plantlets coming from the veins |
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 Aechmea 'Blue Rain' |
 Butterfly Pea - Clitoria ternatea |
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 Temperate waterlily |
 Sea lavender |
in the Alpine House
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 Ptilotus manglesii |
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 Eucomis |
 Leuzea conifera |
 Lilium auratum |
 Lilium speciosum
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 Arisaema consanguineum? |
 Eucomis vandermerwei |
 Amorphophalos kiusianus |
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 Stone Pine |
Pinus pinea - Stone Pine, the propped up tree Originally owned by Princess Augusta who kept it in a pot before it was planted out. This restricted the growth and unlike wild stone pines it has lots of low spreading branches. It began to tilt after losing a limb in a 1926 snowstorm, so was propped up. It lost three more main branches in storms in 2013 |
 Pine before 2013 storms |
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 Bedding outside the Palm House, spot plant on the right |
 Cestrum elegans 'knippianten' |
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 Pendant heliconia - parrot beaks or lobster claws |
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 Palm |
 Ginger |
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