This site uses cookies, by continuing to use this site you are agreeing to their use. Learn More
 |
 |
 |
 |
kew early
| Click on the thumbnails to get a larger picture, then on |
 |
on the top LHS of the screen to return to this page. |
Kew offered early opening to Friends so Matthew and Helen visited on a warm September day
 Fountain |
 The Palm House |
 Dahlia (redskin?) |
 Red and blue bedding |
|||
 Canna detail on the right |
 |
 Ricinus communis |
 The Palm House - using bleach bypass |
|||
 Impatiens |
 Replica vase |
 |
 Temple |
|||
 |
|
 Colchicum autumnale |
||||
 Colchicum autumnale |
 Tithonia rotundiflora |
 Ricinus communis |
Replica of the Medici Vase
The original of white marble with scenes in relief was made in Greece in the first century BC. Subject possibly Greek leaders consulting the oracle at Delphi before setting out for Troy. |
|||
 Exotic bedding |
 Canna growing in water |
 Canna leaves flower lower left  |
||||
 Alpine House |
 |
 Calceolaria polyrrhiza |
||||
 Campanula isophylla f. alba |
 Cyclamen graecum |
 Colchicum in the Alpine Ho. |
 |
|||
 Maintaining the plants |
 Oxalis |
Lost all the files after this point, however it did not affect the gps shown above... Returned on the following Sunday, though at 10.00 rather than 8.00 to retake some of the lost images. Relevant gps for second trip below. |
||||
| pictures by mac | ||||||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|||
 |
 |
 |
 |
|||
 18mm lens taken from practically in the pond |
 |
 Intent on handouts |
 Heliotrope with deep red begonias and cannas in the carpet bedding in front of the Palm House
|
||
|
The Water-lily House was not as humid today so we did not have to wait so long for the cameras to acclimatise. On the first visit the gardener was in the water feeding the plants. |
|||||
 Hibiscus sinensis |
 A reflection of the flowers around the edge of the pool - it does not work. Close up of the flower below  |
 |
|||
 |
 |
 |
|||
 |
 |
 Nymphaea 'Tropic Sunset' |
 Nymphaea 'Saint Louis Gold' |
||
 |
 |
 |
 |
||
 Nymphaea 'Foxfire' |
 Nymphaea 'Green Smoke' |
 Nymphaea 'Foxfire' |
 Young leaves and a flower bud of Victoria Regia Lily 'Longwood hybrid' |
||
 Pitcher plants |
 |
 |
 |
||
 Hibiscus sinensis |
 |
 Another hibiscus |
 Aristolochia littoralis |
||
 Like a seilbahn |
 |
 |
 |
||
 Bedding dahlia |
 Robin |
 Kew Museum |
 |
||
 |
 Syzygium paniculatum 'Newport' |
 Grevillea 'Coastal Sunset' |
 Ferns and lichen |
||
 Red passionflower |
 Allamanda cathartica 'Hendersonii' |
 The giant granadilla Passiflora quadrangularis |
 Fruit of Passiflora quadrangularis |
||
 |
 |
 Nelumbo leaves above seedhead on left |
 Aechmea 'Blue Rain' |
||
 Vriesia Philippocoburgii |
 Passionflower |
 Sugary substance on the pods |
 Air plants |
||
 Strophanthus preussii |
 |
 Oxalis insipida |
 Aechmea blanchetiana and a detail of the flower spike
|
||
 Red passion flower
|
 Aechmea 'Primera' |
 |
|||
 Piranha |
 |
 Discus fish |
|||
 Heliconia psittacorum |
 Echinocereus grusonii |
 Yucca queretavroensis |
 |
||
 Cacti |
 Scented leaved geranium |
 A tatty-tailed peacock |
 Primula viallii |
||
 Colchicum autumnale |
 Euphorbia |
 Waterfall on Rock Garden |
 Rhodophiala bifida in the Alpine House |
||
 Ptilotus manglesii |
 Campanula isophylla |
 Colchicum bivonae |
 Gladiolus carmineus |
||
 Zephyranthes verecunda |
 Biarum tennuifolium |
 Cyclamen graecum |
 Colchicum speciosum |
||
 Biarum ditschianum |
 |
 Zephyranthes verecunda |
 We went onto the grass garden; this is Stipa 'Ichu' |
||
 Fluffy grass |
 Pampas Grass |
 Massive eucalypts |
 |
||
 Mandevilla laxa |
 Alpine House across the Grass Garden |
 Cleome |
 Schizostylis coccinea |
||
 Ginko trunk |
 We had lunch in the Orangery |
 Crocus speciosum |
 Eucalyptus parvifolia |
||
 The Pagoda |
 Sackler Crossing |
 Female Red-Crested Pochard |
 Cygnets trying to take off |
||
 Reclining Mother and Child by Henry Moore |
 Palm House from the Rose Garden |
 Rosa 'Lady of Shallot' |
 Rosa 'The Generous Gardner' |
||
 Rosa 'James Galway' |
 Rosa 'The Alnwick Rose' |
 Rosa 'The Wedgewood Rose' |
 Butterfly Fish |
||
 Puffer fish |
 |
 Razor fish |
 In the Palm House |
||
|
|||||
