The glasshouse is stunning but the rest is a disapointment - very earnest, very worthy but also a very typical Millenium project. A nice little earner for a whole lot of "consultants" but no real soul or drive or reason (contrast with Eden Project) - and now looking decidedly tatty and underfunded is places. It was a lot to get in - and I won't be going again. When I turned up - 10:00 on a sunner June Sunday - there were 3 other cars in the carpark.
The content of the glasshouse was special - all the "mediterranean" biomes collected in one place - I think this is a South African plant
Its a horse-tail from Kamchatka - the highlight of the rather sparse and dismal Wallace garden
Nice Poppy!
Bromeliad - like a little nest of sparrows
Proper traditional smelly rose - (rosa x damascena) - used for perfume but mostly for flavouring sweets
Inside the glasshouse - probably Australian - probably bird pollinated (flowers are red and shaped like a bottle brush)
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