winner of the 9-11 age group and overall winner of Blue Peter's Design a Dragon competition!
Blue Peter's Design a Dragon Competition.
Winning design above by Florence,
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kew with matt
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Logger above, gps below
 Crocus speciosus |
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 Temple of Aeolus |
 Autumn colour |
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 Dahlia 'Bishop of Llandaff' |
 Actaea alba - white baneberry / doll's eyes |
 Arbutus unedo 'Elfin King' |
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 Salvia splendens 'Van Houttei' |
 Salvia involucrata 'Bethellii' |
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Rock Garden | ||||||||||||
 Gladiolus carmineus |
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 Crocus tournefortii |
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 Oxalis melanosticia |
 Crocus kotschyanus |
 Gladiolus carmineus |
 Narcissus viridiflorus |
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 Habranthus martinezii |
 Spiranthes spiralis |
 Oxalis smithiana |
 Amorphophallus kiusianus, picture in spathe below from the web  |
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 Petrocosmea possibly 'minor' |
 Allium wallichii |
 Alpine House roof |
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 Tigridia pavonia |
 Cannas outside the conservatory |
 Close-up |
 Melianthus major a foliage plant. New growth fresh green mature growth almost blue. Newly opened fan below
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 Eucalyptus gunnii 'Little Boy Blue' |
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 Paphiopedilum - Slipper orchid |
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 Must be imitating an insect |
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 Hoya |
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Amorphophallus titanum We were so lucky to find that the Titan Arum was flowering. We had noticed an aroma, but not realized what it was. |
 Amorphophallus titanum |
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 Amorphophallus titanum |
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 Amorphophallus titanum base |
 Pachypodium lamerei |
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 A few flowers still in October
Chains if fruits |
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 Monkey puzzle flowers |
 Autumn crocus |
 Autumn colours  |
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 In the Temperate House |
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 Hebe corriganii |
 Datura - Angel's trumpets |
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 Phymosia umbellata |
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 Double flowered datura |
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 Osteospermum |
 Osteospermum |
 Osteospermum |
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 Gazania |
 Gazania |
 Leonotis leonuris |
We walked down to the Pagoda | ||||||||||||
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 Blue Peter's Design a Dragon Competition. Winning design above by Florence, winner of the 9-11 age group and overall winner of Blue Peter's Design a Dragon competition! |
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 Raked gravel in the Japanese Garden |
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 Cladrastic Kentukea - Yellow Wood |
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 Ostrya virginiana |
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 Early Camellia |
 Holly |
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We had a cupof coffee then visited the
Palm House |
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 Bottle Palm
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 Dorstenia barteri var multiradiata |
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 Dioon spinulosum |
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 The banana is too big for the space |
 Museum No. 1 designed by Decimus Burton and opened in 1857. |
 Across the pond |
Water Lily House not many on show and a bit tatty |
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 Kew's 'Kabuki' |
 Kew's 'Stowaway Blues' |
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 Nymphaea hybrid |
 Bottle gourd |
 Leaves and reflections |
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We visited the Rose Garden before going home |
 Rosa 'Lady of Shallot' |
 Enormous bumble bee |
 Rosa 'Crown Princess Margareta' |
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 Rosa 'The Herbalist' |
 Rosa 'Morning Mist' |
Matt caught a train immediately on arriving a the station and I caught one a few minutes later. I arrived home an hour and ten minutes after setting out from Kew Gardens | |||||||||||||
