Another trip to Kew

 Well after last week's soaking, today was much better! 

I only just made it to the gate for 8am as I had to wait ages for the second bus in Kingston unusually

but you can see hint of blue sky through the light cloud!  hurrah!

I went half way down the Broad Walk first before cutting across towards the Evolution Garden

I can't make blogger let me tell you alongside the photo above, that that is the black walnut tree and it is one again, smothered in (do they call them fruit?)  

the bees were loving this, but weren't posing  

it's going to be one of those bu**er blogger days I can see.... swapping the order of my pics...

I love how the centres lose their middles gradually!

I love this yellow frothy stuff (no ideda what it is)

still couldn't find what these are

the grapes growing on the vine on the fence round the student vegetable beds seem quite prolific this year

verbena

teasels in the sun

the waterfall in the rock garden was on today

then back up the Broad Walk

past the end of the Palm House parterre beds

to the Rose Garden 

still smelling sublime

on my way to the lake I took a seat for a few minutes here 

so many greens and reflections 

Hedgerows plantscapes still looking good

once I could get into the Temperate House, I found lots of groups of funghi,

There was a Kew man up a ladder photographing this,  I did suggest we (Joe Public) needed to do the same but had to make do with shooting from the path.

I'll keep an eye on this next week to see if there are any more

time for refreshments...

getting sunny now, so sitting outside this week

went for the Hummungbird case this week

then into the Palm House 

love the patterns....

beautiful deep pink hibiscus

bananas  

and the waterlily house where the triffid (no I know it's not)  is still producing flowers

the ones this week were harder to photograph as they weren't as near the edge of the bed

pattern from the outside of the petal

this one is just about to open

then round the waterlily pond itself

such pretty leaves hanging down over my head

I had to stop for another on my way out

past the fountain.... come on, 

better!

and then into the Princess of Wales glasshouse

where I found some more of these!

wonder if these will be open next week

this one's faded from last week!

back outside and towards the Broad Walk again 

but heading in the other direction 

I love taking low angles  

before I left though, I went across to the Queen's Garden behind Kew Palace as I'd seen a FB post by Kew saying how gorgeous it was looking

they weren't wrong 

viper's bugloss

not a very good photo but it was very pretty

then I headed home  - thanks for looking.

same time next week?