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We met up with Matthew a bit late as West Hampstead Overground Station is still being updated. The weather is still far too hot and very humid. Flowers are fading quickly some foliage is yellowing and withering.

Cannas

The Palm House and the heraldic animals

The plants had settled in since our last visit

Pollia japonica

Tetrapanax papyrifer

Orchid

Coleus cultivars

Maurandya barclaiana

Neomarica caerulea

Unripe seed pods

Child's artwork

Kangaroo Paw

Tibouchina urvilleana back in the main building

Brunsfelsia pauciflora


Gazania cultivars

Fuchsia 'Thalia'

The refurbished dragons are very fine

On our last visit we saw the blue dragon on display; pictured on the right. It is now placed on the pagoda and supported with wires.

Folly - the explanation enlarges enough to read...

Rosa 'Kew Gardens'

We visited the Shirley Sharwood Gallery of Botanical Art

Possibly Ostrya virginiana

The cardoon / artichoke thistle / globe artichoke

Echinacea cultivar

Red hot poker

We walked down through the herbaceous borders to the Orangery for lunch.

We had quiches and fish

Lagerstroemia x 'Tuscarora'

Grasses

The Sower

where I changed to the close-up lens

Seal rock on a trough

Aquilegia eximea

Campanula elatinoides

Pelargonium endlicherianum

Arisaema fargesii

Roscoe 'Red Ghurka'

Sempervivum ciliosum

Grasshopper in the rock garden

Pool

Bull rushes

Campsis radicans

Salvia involucrata 'Bethellii'

Folly

Zauschneria californica

Tigridia pavonia

Lily leaf

Cactus fruits

Rosa 'Wisley 2008'

Pachypodium lamerei - Madagascar Palm

Outside the Conservatory

There was not much in flower

David Austin Rose

Possibly Rosa 'Rosy Cushion'

Rosa 'Wisley 2008'

Matthew stepped straight onto the District Line tube; we had to wait 24 mins. for the Overground. The Air Con. was very good on both trains, so we were set up for the walk home.