Gesnerilads

Probably my favourite house at Kew (when it is not full of people)

Restrepia 'coup d'etat'

Restrepia 'coup d'etat'

Restrepia 'coup d'etat'

I did not notice this was flowering until i was watering today and smelled whst I can only describe as 'damp wallpaper'. Restrepia 'coup d'etat'🌱

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Smithiantha hybrid

Seemannia sylvatica

Smithiantha hybrid full height

Hello again.

Smuthiantha hybrid
Seemannia sylvatica from seed

I severely underestimated survival rates over the winter!

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Overburdened plant shelves

Overburdened plant shelves

Overburdened plant shelves

Overburdened plant shelves

Plant shelves as they look now; a bit embarrassing to be this honest about them as I know theyre very overcrowded🌱

Red flowered kohleria 'strawberry fields' in front of a marble background

Red flowered kohleria 'strawberry fields' in front of a marble background

Red flowered kohleria 'strawberry fields' in front of a marble background

Kohleria 'Strawberry fields'

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Achimenes erecta 'tiny red'

Achinenes 'veronika gotmanova'

Achimenes 'Dot'

All three plants together

Three achimenes currently in flower. The A. erecta 'tiny red' was grown from seed originally and survived a complete fungal collapse as a few leaf cuttings, only to now end up as a volunteer in other pots

Kohleria 'Vasca'

Kohleria 'vasca'

Kohleria 'vasca'

Kohleria 'Red Ryder'

A selectionof Kohlerias currently in bloom. Potting media not consistent; some in succulent/'bonsai' compost, some in houseplant compost with extra perlite. They really so not seem to care much.

Streptocarpus 'falling stars'

Aeschynanthus, streptocarpus and primulina

Streptocarpus 'rhiannon'

And more🌱

Streptocarpus 'crystal beauty'

A packed plant shelf

Sinningia speciosa 'kaiser wilhelm'

Sinningia speciosa 'kaiser wilhelm'

A few from the shelves again. Kohleria, sinningia, streptocarpus, and more 🌱

A group of kohlerias, including ans nagging macaws, silver feather and jester

group of kohlerias, including ans nagging macaws, silver feather, jardin de monet, heartlands blackberry butterfly and jester

Kohleria wirh deeply veined leaves

A few different Kohlerias i've pulled off the shelves🌱

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A full Kohleria growing in a grey pot against a marble background, thr plant festooned with flowers

A close up of the flowers, showing spotting

A full Kohleria growing in a grey pot against a marble background, thr plant festooned with flowers

My best specimen out of the 5-6 full size examples i have of this Kohleria 'Jardin de Monet'

Kohleria jardin de monet, silver feather, heartlands blackberry butterfly, jester and An's nagging macaws

Kohleria jardin de monet behind a selection of other gesneriads, including Sinningia speciosa 'Kaiser Wilhelm'

Jardin de Monet above titanotrichum oldhamii

Aeschynanthus, primulina and streptocarpus

Gesneriad shelves looking like they're awake now🌱

Stelis emarginata in flower in front of a marbled backdrop

Stelis emarginata in flower in front of a marbled backdrop

Stelis emarginata in flower in front of a marbled backdrop

Stelis emarginata in flower in front of a marbled backdrop

More photos of the same plant🌱

Isn't that the saddest part?

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Stelis emarginata, in a sunny bay window, thick green leaves festooned with triangular yellow flowers

Please excuse this poor quality photograph of my Stelis emarginata in nearly full bloom

Anyway, back to plants

Is it because it's the most obviously run-down, neglected part of the constituency? Is that where they assume the 'idiot racists' live?

There's an awful lot of supposed leftists and anti-brexit centrists on here calling everyone in Runcorn (which, I remind you, is only one town of a few in the constituency) 'thick racists' and it REEKS of classism. It's so incredibly depressing. The huge Reform placards I saw were NOT in Runcorn.

a shaded flower with eight white petals, seen from below. there is a large light green ovary in the center of the flower with a broad, bumpy-looking yellow stigma. over a dozen stamens with stout yellow anthers surround the ovary.

the same flower seen from the side & a bit further back. the white petals cup forwards slightly and the whole flower is gently nodding. in the center of the flower there is a massive green ovary capped with a large yellow stigma & surrounded by thick yellow anthers. the flower's reddish stem grows from the angle between two branching leaf stems.

a colony of mayapples growing across the forest floor. each leaf stands about a foot or so tall & is wide & umbrella-like, but with 4+ deep lobes. flowering stems have two leaves, and the flower grows from where they branch.

🌼 mayapple 🌿
Podophyllum peltatum

#nativeplants #flowerreport

Star Trek ds9, when rom reads Marx after talking to O’Brien

Happy May Day

Kohleria 'sunshine' close up

Kohleria 'sunshine'

Kohleria 'sunshine'

Kohleria 'sunshine'. Why yes, I do like Kohlerias...🌱

Kohleria 'jester'

Kohleria 'jester' flower close up

Kohleria 'jester' flower close up

Kohleria 'jester' 🌱

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