I can't believe it's taken me over a week to get my arse in gear to write about this. The Thursday before last I went on a HTUK visit to the Living Rainforest. We got group admission and I got my student discount on top of that, so was well pleased!
Practically the first organism I saw as I stepped into the rainforest was the giant fern Angiopteris evecta:
There were lots of staghorn ferns (it was the perfect environment for them), looking just like Fugly:
I'm not very good on plant IDs, but I adored the deep iridescent purple of this foliage:
The butterflies were all drunk on fermenting fruit, and rather took a shine to one of my fellow forumers:
A rather blurry Hibiscus:
And then it was off to Andy's house for tea and bacon butties, where I was able to check out his awesome Tetrapanax "Rex":
A great day was had by all. I came back loaded with swaps, including an enormous banananananana, two Arisaema to try out, and a ginger. Fortunately at least half those plants are fully hardy, otherwise I'm going to be buying up all Homebase's stock of fleece in a month or two!
Practically the first organism I saw as I stepped into the rainforest was the giant fern Angiopteris evecta:
There were lots of staghorn ferns (it was the perfect environment for them), looking just like Fugly:
I'm not very good on plant IDs, but I adored the deep iridescent purple of this foliage:
The butterflies were all drunk on fermenting fruit, and rather took a shine to one of my fellow forumers:
A rather blurry Hibiscus:
And then it was off to Andy's house for tea and bacon butties, where I was able to check out his awesome Tetrapanax "Rex":
A great day was had by all. I came back loaded with swaps, including an enormous banananananana, two Arisaema to try out, and a ginger. Fortunately at least half those plants are fully hardy, otherwise I'm going to be buying up all Homebase's stock of fleece in a month or two!
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