Had a great trip to Cambridge Botanic Gardens yesterday followed by a very pleasant but totally unsuccessful search for Pulsatilla vulgaris on nearby Therfield Heath (too early perhaps-Primulas were still only in bud)
Lots of lovely Alpines doing their thing, which I totally failed to capture in photos

Stars of the show were these two Legumes:Calliandra haematophala from Bolivia with tennis ball sized powderpuff blooms & the Jade Vine Strongylodon macrobotrys. Once inside this tunnel of surreal beauty, I really didn't want to come home!
But first a shot of the lovely little parasite Lathraea clandestina, living up to its name by poking its little heads above ground & pretending to be a Semiaquilegia
