Goodnight friends! Up to 25°c, thankfully enough of a breeze and occasional sweeping banks of dense clouds to keep things mostly the pleasant side of sweltering. After two days at Kew there’s still so much left to see. Rose walks and cedar avenues heavy with fragrance. Immense redwoods, at 40 metres still less than half the size of the tallest in their native western North American forests. Spectacular palms and passionflowers in the glasshouses. Long days, we’re both a little exhausted but content.
May we be open to discovery and surprise today!
Image ID: Photo of solanum pyracanthos, AKA a porcupine tomato, with small purple star shaped flowers and long fuzzy pinnately-lobed leaves which, along with the stem, bear rows of dramatic neon orange prickles along their thicker veins, some up to 3cm long.
Photo of a huge spread of many-fingered palm fronds, curving branches reaching up into a ceiling of glass and white-painted Victorian ironwork.
