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kew april 2019

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Trip to Kew on Good Friday - a hot day

Logger above and gps below

Some pictures of the glass sculptures in 2005

CHIHULY 2005

Palm House

Double tulips in the urns

Tulips

Dale Chihuly's glass sculptures were scattered about the garden

Summer Sun

Outside the Palm House - popular for selfies

With campanile

Or without

View from the Palm House

Red Reeds at the Waterlily House

Davidia invilucrata

Ethereal White, Persian Pond by Dale Chihuly

Hope this is not a dead tree

Scarlet & Yellow icicle tower

Neodymium reeds and Turquoise Marlins

Cat-tails & Copper Birch Reeds
 

Iris japonica

Yellow herons and reeds

Beluga boat

Opal and Gold Chandelier

Turquoise marlins & floats

Strelitzia reginae

Chartreuse Hornet

My favourite

Balls in the raked gravel

Minka House

Lime crystal tower

Sapphire Star

Paintbrushes

We had a light lunch in the Orangery

Arisaema thunbergii subsps. urashima

Arisaema speciosum

Iris Sari

Iris Afghanica

We walked through the Princes of Wales Conservatory.   It was too hot to linger

Tortoise

Slipper orchid

Limnocharis flava

We went home early;  there were loads of people queuing up outside the gate