In January I’m looking for a Winter Garden
(This month I want to see photos and stories about winter gardens. You can interpret this any way you want; a garden in winter, winter flowers, or plants in a glasshouse)
This is the Great Glasshouse at the Botanic Garden of Wales. The unusual raindrop-shaped design was the work of world-renowned architects Norman Foster and Partners and it is the largest single span glasshouse in the world.
The plants come from six areas of the world: California, Australia, the Canary Islands, Chile, South Africa and the Mediterranean Basin and the glasshouse is used to protect and conserve some of the most endangered plants on the planet.
One of the loveliest things about visiting a glasshouse such as this is that you feel as though you have just travelled to some exotic part of the world, or in this case, several.
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- Get your post in by the end of the month, as the new theme comes out on the first Sunday in February.
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Absolutely beautiful!!! The colors are so vibrant! Most of these are flowers I have never seen before!
They do have some unusual ones in there. Thanks for popping in and leaving a comment 🙂
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Now that is a majestic glasshouse Jude. I imagine it would be a lovely warm place to wander through in your chilly winter days. I notice Aboriginal art work there too. I’m scraping the barrel for winter over here but here is Canberra from 2 years ago. https://memoriesaremadeofthisblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/garden-photography-challenge-winter/
It is a very unusual building and really suits the location. Beautiful planting too! Thanks for your link 🙂
You’re welcome…
You have done well naming nearly all of the flowers Jude. The small pink one bottom left of Gerbera I think is a Geraldton Wax, the other fluffy one I don’t know but remember seeing them in WA.
I hoped you’d be able to ID some of them for me! Thank you PP 🙂
🙂
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I do like an exotic glasshouse on a cold winter day! 🙂 I’ve gone for more snow this time around, but I think that’s the end of my snowy garden shots.
https://flowersbykaz.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/winter-garden-2-walpole-park/
They are definitely more enticing on a chilly day than in the middle of summer (well, your summer, for us there is little difference). I enjoyed seeing all the Australian and South African species.
And you have surpassed yourself with the wintry garden 🙂
True, a humid glasshouse on a 40C day during the Australian summer would not be fun!
So pretty Jude. A blast of color in our very white world. 🙂
Some areas of the country have had a blast of the white stuff here, but not us. We are still grey. And wet. And cold now… a visit to a hothouse is more than welcome!
I really enjoy gardens with plantings from other countries. What a gorgeous place to visit.
It is a new glasshouse, so I didn’t quite know what to expect, but it is rather lovely. As you can see from the map it is very open, so you wander around different areas of the world. Great for someone like me who loves to travel!
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Here’s my winter garden offering. It’s Jo’s fault 🙂 http://wp.me/pKVAM-1H0
Jo is to blame for a LOT of things… 😉
Ahem! 😦
Did you say something Jo? 😀
Feeling playful!
http://restlessjo.me/2016/01/20/winter-garden-snowku/
I see… 😀
BTW We exchanged contracts today, so Cornwall here I come…. Whoopee!!
Fabulous! Accept a celebratory snowku! 🙂 I was going to ask but hardly dared. That’s brilliant!
Ah, so a snowku is a sort of snowball? Champagne and eggnog? Mmm…
Worth a shot! Ha-ha 🙂 Sorry about that… watching War and Peace. Bit gory! Not staying up to watch Murray but Hewitt tomorrow morning should be great fun. 🙂
I love watching Hewitt – last game(s) before he finishes isn’t it? He’ll be good in the Davis Cup though. I really think you should support Murray on my behalf as I can’t watch the match.
Murray doesn’t need my support- until he meets Novak 🙂
Ah, yes, his Achilles heel.
As an afterthought, can I book my tour of the lost Gardens of Heligan now? 🙂 🙂
Yes! Sad thing is that we get to be even further away from one another 😦
There must be a flight option to Exeter. No idea how far beyond that. But you’ll be nearer to Gilly. And (re. the email) I’m desperate to see Scilly 😦 😦