Agh, a week between blog posts. How naughty of me, and I haven't even had the decency to reply to my comments. Well, I have decamped into a Starbucks in between job interviews (go me) with my trusty handbag-sized laptop in an attempt to rectify this.
On Saturday it was a HTUK outing to Kew Gardens. We spent the best part of the day there, visiting the Princess of Wales Conservatory for the Tropical Extravaganza twice. I loved the colour combinations of the orchids and bromilliads, but did find the present shapes a little confusing:
Being a little allergic to flowers anyway from a gardening perspective, I much preferred the ferns and the palm house, especially this Platycerium superbum lurking at the very end of the POW Conservatory - it's ginormous!!
Still ugly as far as ferns go though...
The cycad display at one end of the palm house was gorgeous. One day I will have more than three cycads!
And hopefully for people who haven't been inside the palm house, this might give you a little bit of an idea of what it's like (i.e. awesome):
In the temperate house I satisfied my Gondwanan gymnosperm fetish, and got some ideas for arranging different ferns in the New Zealand section:
I made everyone go in the Evolution house:
And desperately tried to explain to everyone why it is that I love ferns, cycads and conifers so much:
And while I like my tropical plants, my gymnosperms especially, I can still appreciate a stunning display of crocuses:
It's displays like that that make me want to break into "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park":
Spring is here! Ah spring is here!
Life is skittles and life is beer!
I think the loveliest time of the year
Is the spring! I do! Don't you? Course you do!
And you know, I think spring might be here.
On Saturday it was a HTUK outing to Kew Gardens. We spent the best part of the day there, visiting the Princess of Wales Conservatory for the Tropical Extravaganza twice. I loved the colour combinations of the orchids and bromilliads, but did find the present shapes a little confusing:
Being a little allergic to flowers anyway from a gardening perspective, I much preferred the ferns and the palm house, especially this Platycerium superbum lurking at the very end of the POW Conservatory - it's ginormous!!
Still ugly as far as ferns go though...
The cycad display at one end of the palm house was gorgeous. One day I will have more than three cycads!
And hopefully for people who haven't been inside the palm house, this might give you a little bit of an idea of what it's like (i.e. awesome):
In the temperate house I satisfied my Gondwanan gymnosperm fetish, and got some ideas for arranging different ferns in the New Zealand section:
I made everyone go in the Evolution house:
And desperately tried to explain to everyone why it is that I love ferns, cycads and conifers so much:
And while I like my tropical plants, my gymnosperms especially, I can still appreciate a stunning display of crocuses:
It's displays like that that make me want to break into "Poisoning Pigeons In The Park":
Life is skittles and life is beer!
I think the loveliest time of the year
Is the spring! I do! Don't you? Course you do!
And you know, I think spring might be here.
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