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The Temperate House was re-opened after a complete renovation on the Bank Holiday Weekend; we visited on the following Tuesday.

Dragons were sited around the garden for children to find

Wonderful tree

Yomping to the Pagoda

Panoramic view as 18mm lens not up to taking the complete building

Grand entrance

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Plane seeds

Malus

Pagoda

Dragons taken with the 35mm lens so not successful

Detail even less successful...

Wonderfully scented shrub

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Bluebells

Blue dragon

Fatsia japonica berries

Japanese Garden with azaleas

The landscape was laid out in 1996 following restoration of the Chokushi-Mon Japanese Gateway. In designing it, Professor Fukuhara of Osaka University adapted garden styles from the Momayama period when the original gateway in Japan was built.

Japanese raked gravel garden with cones

Another dragon

Zantedescia aethiopica

Leucadendron argenteum

Clivia miniata

Octagon's roof

Pool and waterfall

Decoy deployed dragon leaves by truck

Temperate house

Tulip

Uniform

Main glasshouse

Another treatment

from the gallery through the glass

Libertia ixioides

Back in the garden we went to the Orangery for lunch. I had a jackfruit mush...

Cistus albidus

Tulips were planted in a meadow

Iris germanica var.

Linum arboreum on a trough outside the Alpine House

Shading in the alpine house

Small white

Leucocoryne ixioides

Leucocoryne pauciflora

Corydalis flexuosa 'Père David'

Verbascum possibly 'Letitia'

Thalictrum tuberosum

Lamium garganicum subsp. striatum

Mimulus naiandinus

Strelitzia reginae

Strongylodon macrobotrys, commonly known as jade vine, emerald vine or turquoise jade vine, is a species of leguminous perennial liana, a native of the tropical forests of the Philippines, with stems that can reach up to 18m in length.