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General Subjects => Travel / Places to Visit => Topic started by: Eric Locke on May 12, 2009, 09:45:39 PM
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A Few Photos from Kew.
Eric
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And more.
Eric
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And a few More.
Eric
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Eric
Lovely photos and plants thanks for posting. Just saw the first set so I wonder what the second is. It was posted while I wrote.
Great work
Kind regards
Joakim
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Again ;)
Eric
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Last Few .
Eric
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Eric,
A great garden, one of the treasures of the world. Great photographs.
Paddy
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Thanks for showing us some Kew highlights Eric !
Must go back sometime !
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It's great to see a window to Kew in May....Thanks for the lovely shots of the setting and glass houses, Eric, and the odd bit of wildlife amongst the beautiful plants - one that intrigues me is 23.jpg - what on earth is it ? ::)
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It's great to see a window to Kew in May....Thanks for the lovely shots of the setting and glass houses, Eric, and the odd bit of wildlife amongst the beautiful plants - one that intrigues me is 23.jpg - what on earth is it ? ::)
A wee lizard ...... sadly we see so few of these now in Scotland.
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A really cute lizard ,Maggi, I'm sorry you see so few in Scotland - wondering why?
...one that intrigues me is 23.jpg - what on earth is it ?
However, everything seems to be a bit topsy turvey with me today as I meant to type 2.jpg
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A really cute lizard ,Maggi, I'm sorry you see so few in Scotland - wondering why?
...one that intrigues me is 23.jpg - what on earth is it ?
However, everything seems to be a bit topsy turvey with me today as I meant to type 2.jpg
Oh, that's my fault! I saw your post.... assumed a reference to a critter, not a plant.... because of the lizard.....thought you'd had a hiccup with the typing, edited to 23 !
Now I look back properly and see the 2 meant exactly that! Sorry, it's show week and I'm distracted!! That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it! :-[ :(
2 is an Amorphophallus of some sort......... :-\
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::) well that's a relief, Maggi, I thought I'd really lost it in the mountains - it's the altitude I blame of course although probably it's more likely to be my aptitude ;D
Thanks for the name of that extraordinary looking plant at Kew
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Hope it's not altitude, Robin.... for we're only at around 250 feet above sea level and I am muddled to smithereeens most of the time! :-\
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The lizard doesn't look like a native, well have to wait for Anthony to identify it.
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It's great to see a window to Kew in May....Thanks for the lovely shots of the setting and glass houses, Eric, and the odd bit of wildlife amongst the beautiful plants - one that intrigues me is 23.jpg - what on earth is it ? ::)
Ragged Robin
2.jpg is as Maggie said a Titan Arum -Amorphophalus Titan "The Biggest Flower in the World"
If you look on the Kew website there is lots of information and photos of these flowerings.
"Wee Lizard" was in a tropical section basking with the tropical waterlilies so not a "Native".
Eric
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Thanks for that Eric. Kew is such an amazing place just to wander in and admire!
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Thanks, Eric.
We do get "wee lizards" in Scotland.... but not as many as there used to be.....and not of the species you show, obviously! ;D I forget what species they are, if I ever knew.... cute and little, anyhow ;)
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Ragged Robin - Kew is worth a visit at any time of the year.
This was my first visit for several years and I will not leave it for so long before I go again.
As always this garden is too large too cover in just one visit .
I did find the Alpine house rather small compared with the old display area.
Tree walk was a new experience for me and gives very different views to the garden.
Eric
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A few photos from the mentioned Tree Walk.
No 14 shown earlier was also taken from here.
Eric
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Wonderful pics. Some amazing plants in there. 2 is Amorphophallus titanum as previously mentioned. Powerful stench to join the intriguing flower. One I hope to see in bloom somewhere one day in person, as I love the aroid family. I actually grow a couple of them from seed, although I doubt they are ever going to get to flowering size in my house and they can't go out into the cold. Given that in the wild forests in Sumatra they have a 22 feet wide leaf, even scaled down with better light there is going to be problems at some point. ;D
My question is about 21.jog. What in the world is it?
The tree walk is quite amazing, isn't it? Would love to see all of this in person one day.
Thanks for the pics.
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What a fantastic walk in the tree tops at Kew, Eric, we miss so much when we're grounded :)
I shall make a point of going on the walk in Kew this summer, thanks for posting your inspirational photos
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My question is about 21.jpg. What in the world is it?
Paul, the cute plant with the nicely marked upward facing bell flowers is Petunia patagonica.
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The cream "bowls" with the purple spotting? That is a Petunia? :o :o :o
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I believe so, Paul! Weird , is it not? Rather sinister flower colouring.
It used to be called Nierembergia patagonica
I have pinched these two photos from (Cliff Booker's pix/) posts in this old thread ;
http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1733.msg43873;topicseen#msg43873
two shots of Petunia patagonica.....
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I loved number 2 as well but it looks a little large even for a 36cm pot for the show bench. I gather it is rather smelly too.
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Wow!! That is something I would definitely like to grow. Although I guess it would not look quite so good in my conditions here. ;) Fascinating form and colour. 8)