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kew may 2025
Tracker above: gps below
Kew covers 132 hectares / 330 acres
Peter D, Matthew and I visited on the 15th May
| I took some pictures in the garden the day before when the sun was shining |
 Cistus purpureus and the var. 'Alan Fradd' |
 R. Nevada and Alliums |
 PCI from seed |
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 PCI from seed with more flowers per stem |
 Paeonia 'Scarlet O'Hara' |
 Ceanothus |
 Welsh poppies |
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 Iris inominata style |
 Possibly Rosa 'Midnight Blue' |
 Rosa Nevada |
After a fraught start with transport we started on our walk around Kew. | ||||
 Iris sibirica |
 Rhododendron fortunei |
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 Dasylirion wheeleri and the solarised version  |
 Echium wildpretii - Tower of Jewels |
 Echinopsis thelegona |
 The wonderful flowers were facing the light |
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 Myrtillocactus geometrizans |
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Monkey tail cactus flowering |
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 Hibiscus grandidieri |
 Kew's Stowaway Blue' |
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 Pitcher plants |
 Neoregellia |
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 Crocodile fern - Microsorum musifolium 'Crocodyllus' |
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 Dendrobium densiflorum  |
 Anguola clowesii |
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 Masdevallia hybrid |
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 A robin sang, his voice magnified by the glasshouse |
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 Guzmania |
 Brillantaisia |
 Nepenthes truncata |
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 Calochortus splendens |
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 Iris variegata L. var reginae 'Bozhimir Davidov' |
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 Pachystachys lutea - lollipop plant |
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 Nymphaea 'Saint Louis Gold' |
 Nymphaea 'Albert Greenburg' |
 Nymphaea carpentaria 'Julia Leu' |
 Geese with goslings |
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 Cistus |
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 Billardiera heterophylla |
 Strelitzia regina |
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 Arum - Zantedescia aetheopica |
We walked down to the Pagoda
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 Dragon on the left |
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 Modern painted dragon |
 Horse chestnut candle |
 From the Sackler Crossing |
 Iris pseudacorus |
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 An out of focus fox moved past |
 An installation |
We had the odd complication coming home, but it was solved without too much bother | ||||
