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kew u3a
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Michael organised a trip to see the Chihuly glass at Kew for the U3A. It was a hot day...
 I was too slow to get a good shot |
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 Chihuly sculpture |
 Ailanthus altissima var tanakai |
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Some smaller pieces of Chihuly Glass |
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 Sea urchins? |
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 Not very sharp, but I love it |
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 Lime crystal tower |
 Outside the entry to the Temperate House
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 Hibiscus |
 Beluga boat |
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 Cylindrocline commersonii - Tree Daisy. Just 12 wild specimens exist growing on a fragment of mountainside. The genus cylindrocline has only 2 species; the other c. lorencer also critically endangered. Seeds will be stored at the Millennium Seedbank at Wakehurst |
 Turquoise marlins & floats |
 Abutilon |
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 Better from the gallery |
 From the gallery |
 Hedychium |
 Ginger |
 Bauhinia blakeana |
 Cattails & Copper Birch Reeds |
 Turquoise Marlins |
 Scarlet & Yellow icicle tower |
| Waterlily House |
 Hibiscus in the lobby |
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 Ethereal White, Persian Pond |
 Kew's 'Stowaway Blues' |
 Nymphaea violacea 'Big Mitchell Pond' |
 Nymphoides indica - Water Snowflake |
 Kew's 'Kabuki' |
 Palm House and bedding |
 Ptilotus manglesii in the alpine house |
 Cannas |
 In the rock garden |
| We had lunch in the Orangery, the servers were a bit mean with the food, but it was so hot it did not matter. | |||
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We were disappointed not to see the Blue Peter dragon on the Pagoda. What has happened to it? |
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 Still my favourite |
 Boules? |
We did not have to wait too long for trains on the return journey. Everyone was tired |
