A trip to Kew gardens.

Peatmoss

• Nov 13, 2011

• #1

I was on vacation in the UK back in August and I went to visit Kew Gardens:

The temperate house:

The palm house:

Chilean wine palm, the largest indoor plant in the world:

Some kind of flower:

Cyclamen:

Passiflora sp:

Lithops:

Waterlily flower:

Waterlily flower:

Giant waterlilies:

Another waterlily flower:

Bananas!:

Some kind of "living stone":

Flower:

Ginger infloresence:

Now for the Carnivores!

Outdoor bog:

Flytraps in outdoor bogs:

Cephalotus indoors:

Flytrap among Drosera adelae:

Heliamphora nutans:

Sarracenia flava:

Drosera binata flowers:

Roridula with wasp:

Sarracenia minor:

Sarracenia leucophylla:

Sarracenia flava:

Fly on Sarracenia flava:

Thanks for looking!

 

ellisonk001

• Nov 13, 2011

• #2

Beautiful pictures!

Thanks for sharing your vacations with us!!

 

Dexenthes

Aristoloingulamata

• Nov 13, 2011

• #3

Spectacular! Thanks for sharing, those are some sweet pics.

 

pappydew

I hate bugs. Carnivorous plants get me.

• Nov 13, 2011

• #4

WOW! Some nice cp's there!

 

mass

• Nov 13, 2011

• #5

Those Giant waterlilies are AMAZING!

 

Peatmoss

• Nov 13, 2011

• #6

Thanks!

 

Heli

villosaholic

• Nov 13, 2011

• #7

OMG where is the Kew Gardens? I felt like I have been here.

 

Wire Man

Sphagnum Guru

• Nov 13, 2011

• #8

Those giant water lilies are unbelievable! The flava var. rugelii looks massive! I hope I can get over there this winter.

 

Peatmoss

• Nov 13, 2011

• #9

The waterlilies were pretty amazing, the flavas were pretty great as well!

@helilover: Kew gardens is just outside London, England.

 

MH1

Smile, it makes people nervous :)

• Nov 14, 2011

• #10

I went there in July (or maybe Autumn?). It's a great place! Missed the outdoor CP bog though :/

 

mobile

• Nov 14, 2011

• #11

Did you get to see the Nepenthes collection in the private nursery? Apparently if you ask nicely you sometimes get a tour of it.

http://www.cpukforum.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=33884&st=0

 

Peatmoss

• Nov 14, 2011

• #12

No I did not see the Nepenthes...

If I had known I would have asked. I will have to enquire if I ever visit the UK again!

I guess their Nepenthes display was under construction but they did have a couple sickly ventricosas and something else on display in the main CP room.

 

jimscott

Tropical Fish Enthusiast

• Nov 14, 2011

• #13

Great photography!

 

jbradt

stretch.... yawn...

• Nov 14, 2011

• #14

Great pics! I love the heli!