The Temperate House was re-opened after a complete
renovation on the Bank Holiday Weekend; we visited on the
following Tuesday. |
Dragons were sited around the garden for children to find |
Wonderful tree |
Yomping to the Pagoda |
Panoramic view as 18mm lens not up to taking the complete building |
Grand entrance |
This enlarges |
Plane seeds |
Malus |
Pagoda |
Dragons taken with the 35mm lens so not successful |
Detail even less successful... |
Wonderfully scented shrub |
This enlarges |
Bluebells |
Blue dragon |
Fatsia japonica berries |
Japanese Garden with azaleas |
The landscape was laid out in 1996 following restoration of the Chokushi-Mon
Japanese Gateway. In designing it, Professor Fukuhara of Osaka
University adapted garden styles from the Momayama period when the
original gateway in Japan was built.
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Japanese raked gravel garden with cones |
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Another dragon |
Temperate House |
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Zantedescia aethiopica |
Leucadendron argenteum |
Clivia miniata |
Octagon's roof |
Pool and waterfall |
Decoy deployed dragon leaves by truck |
Matt's Pictures
Temperate house |
Tulip |
Uniform |
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Main glasshouse |
Another treatment |
from the gallery through the glass |
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Libertia ixioides |
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Back in the garden we went to the Orangery for lunch. I had
a jackfruit mush...
Cistus albidus |
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Tulips were planted in a meadow
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Iris germanica var. |
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Alpine House |
Linum arboreum on a trough outside the Alpine House |
Shading in the alpine house |
Small white |
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Leucocoryne ixioides |
Leucocoryne pauciflora |
Corydalis flexuosa 'Père David' |
Verbascum possibly 'Letitia' |
Thalictrum tuberosum |
Lamium garganicum subsp. striatum |
Mimulus naiandinus |
Princess of Wales Conservatory |
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Strongylodon macrobotrys, commonly known
as jade vine, emerald vine or turquoise jade vine, is a species
of leguminous perennial liana, a native of the tropical forests
of the Philippines, with stems that can reach up to 18m in
length. |
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Strelitzia reginae |
Strelitzia reginae |
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Water lily house |
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Palm house
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Beehive Ginger |
Heliconia rostrata |
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taken at waist level... |
Matt stepped straight on to a District Line train and we only waited a
few minutes for the Overground |