Saturday, July 5, 2025

Kew

The heatwave has ended (for now)  but the forecast rain held off till we left .


it was very grey and slightly muggy but not cold.




cool enough for jeans without feeling overheated, and a hoodie!  


the geese had congregated by the pond



the eggs have hatched, Kim saw 2 peaking out from under mum






then the round bed at top of Broad Walk



Achillea,  Broad Walk 




there were so many bees on the flowers 











so many daylilies







round by the monkey puzzle tree

and the monkey puzzle tree 


in the border on the veg garden
evolution garden 














round the back of the echinops patch 


and of course blogger now reversing the photos.










sunflowers on the other side of the EG



lots more to come still 

still some roses, too. 


snoozing bee in the middle of an agapanthas 









by the pond, heading for breakfast 

the little hover fly insect flew into shot as I clicked the shutter!



we tried again at the fountain
I went for a brownie today,  still over-priced but very lovely!  the tea is free until the end of July (until 10am )

rose garden, this pink variety 
also has a mauvey stage 















pausing at "Of the Oak" on our way to the lake 

where the geese
and lots of young ducks


came rushing up for food
lots of blurred shots as they were moving fast....


some ok though
crows came for monkey nuts

the geese even stole some of them , we've never known that before 





love the wrinkly necks on the greylags

lots of young looking squirrels running around too

heading for the Davies Exploration House






















outside, they've planted up a new bed running alongside the Temperate House



inside the TH (and out of order....)










needed a step ladder really to see this
loving the display of lotus flowers in the western octagon 








outside near the Mediterranean garden



we went down the steps by King Williams Temple


we took a little path into the depths of the MG  and found a little seat
before heading back across the garden where people were having fun interacting with Of the Oak
and then off toward the waterlily house





reading a sign under a tree that I didn't photograph)  














then in to see waterlilies - it wasn't as humid inside as I thought it might be






then over past the bed by the pond
to the Princess of Wales conservatory where this has - finally - flowered!


of course I had to stand on the bench to see properly




we went inside 




having rushed through the POW quite quickly in the heat last week. I hadn't noticed this tree flowering, now it is doing it's usual of dropping it's flowers into the leaves below




waterlily leaf

fern 






I'd been trying to keep out of Kim's shot but she says it's good for perspective


apparently it's known as  Giant Dutchman's Pipe 


Mum used to have one of these as a houseplant, don't remember quite such big flowers though

then round along the top path of the rock garden


flowering yukka

against a now very grey sky





not masses in the alpine house

but always love an allium member



in the pond outside

before heading back past the pond 









before packing away the camera and heading home -  leaving just as the first shower of the day hit, not very heavy, but we were lucky  -  it was forecast to be showery all morning.




Thanks for looking - next week is forecast very hot again so bring your hat and water and suncream....