Flowers in the Evolution Garden and Waterlily house, plus butterflies and a fox in Kew Gardens - mid July 2025

Gorgeous Day Lily in the Evolution Gardens - it was the first time I had visited this part of Kew Gardens and it was amazing on a sunny July day

Very tall yellow daisy-like flowers

Bee-spotting lesson!

White Poppy

Plums in the kitchen garden

 

and Grapes

Large ladybird on top of one of the posts in the kitchen garden

Large bee in a pink Rose in the Evolution Garden

Shrub with fancy rose-coloured flowers

Very tall Sunflower

Absolutely beautiful multi-coloured pink roses on the end of a stem

Huge clump of purple Agapanthus with white Crinium Lilies in the background

Large Artichoke or Cardoon

Orange trumpet-shaped flowers - Campsis Radicans

White Crinium Lilies with the Agapanthus in the background

Large group of orange flowers - with one tiny red flower joining them!

Silver Sea Holly

View from the Evolution Garden with a temple in the background

Lovely large purple Clematis flower

Spiky yellow petals with a bee in the centre

Purple Waterlily in the Waterlily House

Pretty pink Waterlily

Two mauve Waterlilies with a reflection of the roof in the water 

Lovely tall white Waterlily

Huge Waterlily pads

Red-eyed Damselfly on a plant near the bridge over the lake 

Female Tufted duck with duckling standing by shrubs at the edge of the lake

Hybrid goose - maybe Domestic/Greylag mix???

Common Blue damselfly on an iris leaf at the edge of the lake

Meadow Brown butterfly on mauve thistle-like flower

Holly Blue butterfly on Purple Loosestrife

Pair of mating Common Blue damselflies

Crafty fox

View of Syon House on the other side of the Thames

Gatekeeper butterfly on Ragwort in the woodland garden

 

Flowers and wildlife in Kew Gardens - 9th March 2025

I went for a walk in Kew Gardens during early March, where I saw this beautiful blossom

and Magnolia buds beginning to form

Jackdaw marching along in the sunshine

Lovely red flowers - I think that it may be Quince

Pretty white blossom

Orange Crown Imperials and Daffodils

More flower buds

Not sure, but I think this is Dogwood

Paperbush flowers

The Chinese Pagoda

Dragons decorating the Pagoda

Red Fox resting at the base of a tree

Mandarin drake on grass at the edge of the lake

White hybrid goose - I was told that it has been named "Bowie" by the locals

More signs of Spring by the lake

A second white hybrid goose - I don't know if this one has a name too!!