With great anticipation we made a trip to the Kew Gardens Lily House to see the Victoria Amazonica lily. The expanse of the raise-rimmed leaves with their spikey defenses never fail to awe. The red-blushed, veined and puckered underside of the pads suggest a perturbing hybrid between strange vegetable and alien animal.
We admired the submerged terracotta potted plants and might try something similar in our puddle back home.
We ate our picnic on a bench shaded by an alder and watched the wildlife make the most of a sun-drenched day.
We were lured in by the delectable rose garden where we spent a good couple of hours elbowing our way amongst the bumblebees to plunge our noses into the very middle of the blooms to breath great lungfuls of the scented roses.
We of course made our way to see the 'Kew on a Plate' beds and were impressed by the student beds especially those that were experimenting with interplanting.
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