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Some pictures taken at home before setting out for Kew

My first outing with a new camera Nikon Z8

Rosa 'Blue for You'

Rosa 'The Eye of the Tiger'

Cistus 'Alan Fradd'

Papaver rupifragum

Fred

Rosa 'Fighting Temeraire'

Borage

Rosa 'Crown Princess Margareta'

Paeonia 'Scarlet O'Hara'

Wonderful Cistus purpureus outside the conservatory

Fouquieria splendens

Purging Nut - Jatropha curcas called poderica

Crinum americanum - Swamp Lily

Fouquieria splendens (above) is a plant indigenous to the Mojave Desert, Sonoran Desert, Chihuahuan Desert and Colorado Desert in the Southwestern United States, and northern Mexico. While semi-succulent and a desert plant, Ocotillo is more closely related to the tea plant and blueberries than to cactuses.

Colocasia esculenta 'Black Magic' Elephant Ear

Purple Alamanda - Alamanda blanchetii

Begonia

Gulmohar commonly known as Royal poinciana or the peacock flower tree. The scientific name of Gulmohar is Delonix regia.

Oncidium sphacelatum

This Titan Arum will be flowering / spathing soon. It can grow from 2" to 6" a day

Sobralia macrantha var. alba

Sobralia xanmoleuca

Pictures at: http://cullens.org.uk/1.Cullens_kew-with-matt.htm

Sobralia macrantha var. alba

Oncidium sphacelatum

Lobelia laxiflora subsp. angustifolia

Geum triflorum

Calochortus splendens

Centaurea clementei

Arisaema tortuosum

Greenovia diplocycis

Weldenia candida

Californian poppies on the rock garden

Iris Milesii

Iris 'Frost and Flame'

Paeonia officionalis

Paeonia lactiflora 'Noemie Demay'

Rosa 'Charles Darwin'

Rosa 'Golden Celebration'

Paeonia suffruticosa 'High Noon'

Iris setosa var nasuensis

Roscoe cautleoides

Possibly Antirrhinum braun-blanquetii

Rodgersia

Pulsatilla seed heads

PCI

Delphiniums in the herbaceous borders

Iris siberica

This summer, contemporary artist Marc Quinn will present a major exhibition at Kew Gardens exploring the relationship between people and plants. Building on the artist’s long-standing interest in nature and the human experience, Quinn’s Light into Life will encompass monumental sculptures across the Gardens alongside a dedicated presentation of works from the 1990s until today in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art. Offering moments of thoughtful reflection and interaction throughout the Gardens, the exhibition examines our complex relationship with the natural world and represents one of the largest site-specific art projects at Kew to date.

Light into Life will feature a selection of newly conceived artworks, developed through close collaboration with Kew’s scientists and horticulturists. Working with specialists from a variety of fields including taxonomy and plant diversity, Quinn will create pieces based on significant plants from the collections at Kew. Amongst these is a large-scale series of sculptures based on herbarium specimens of plants which have inspired drug discovery, including the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), a source of drugs used for pain relief. These abstract sculptures not only tell the vital story of our reliance on the natural world for therapeutic treatments, but also emphasise the constructive quality of humanity’s complicated relationship with nature.