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kew august 2023

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We started at the Rose Garden where there were not many plants in flower and not many buds or new growth, our garden is better!

Bedding outside the Palm House

Giant hibiscus

Rosa 'Molineux'

Rosa 'Skylark'

Rosa 'Wisley 2008'

Waterlily House

Momordica charantia - Bitter Melon

Mimosa pudica

Hydrocleys nymphoides

Victoria boliviana

Dalechampia dioscorefolia

Possibly Passiflora coccinea using post processing and D lighting

using +2 compensation

Colocasia - Pharoah's mask

Hibiscus

We went around the back of the Waterlily House for the first time

Cedrus atlantica large cones

Male (pollen) cones (on the right) are about 5 cm long, erect, they release clouds of yellow pollen in the fall. Female (seed) cones (on the left) are barrel-shaped, upright, 5-7.5 cm long, and require 2 years to mature.

Cedrus atlantica small cones

Magnolia grandiflora

Red hot poker

Ginger

Alpine House

Pickerel weed

Tigridia pavonia

Lagerstroemia x Tuscarora

Sky over the Sion view

Lion on the arch on Sion House

A fox appeared and sloped off

Temperate House

Scadoxus puniceus

Solanum lacinatum

Fungi

Ginger

Brugsmania with a sport

 

Blue bamboo

Brassaiopsis

 

Delphiniums in the newly planted area where the Mediterranean plants used to be.

My train came in before Matthews we had a good day despite the logger failing.