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| Hong Kong Park; an oasis in the heart of the financial district. |
I got back yesterday from three weeks away on my trip to Australia via Hong Kong and back through Los Angeles. It's been a wonderful time, filled with great gardens and wild places, and a host of delightful people who have taken care of me and showed me around with great hospitality, for which I am extremely grateful. Along the way I've taken 18GB, or 4901 images, though it's been frustrating that I haven't been able to post much along the way. I'll work on rectifying that over the next few weeks, but here is a selection as appetizer.
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| Kadoorie Farm and Botanical Garden, New Territories: an interesting mix of organic, experimental farming, botanical gardening and native forest. |
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| The red centre: an interpretation of the Australian desert at the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne, a wonderful combination of modern design and native plants near Melbourne. |
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| Anigozanthus hybrids at Kuranga Nursery, near Melbourne |
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| Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne |
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| Evening light over the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. |
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| Mat Murray with wild Telopea speciosissima, in the Blue Mountains. |
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| Actinotus helianthi at the Australian National Botanic Garden, Canberra. |
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| Sydney Opera House |
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| Dahlia imperialis on the California coast. |
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| The Blue Garden at Ganna Walska Lotusland, Santa Barbara. |
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| Succulent planters in Dustin Gimbel's garden, Long Beach. |
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| And finally back home to freezing Yorkshire, bringing the Silver Sebrights with me. It's lovely to have them here in the new garden, at last. |
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Welcome home to the cold weather. Thanks for sharing your travels.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing indeed! Such cool plants; I had never even heard of the Actinotus helianthi before. The Red Centre garden is quite stunning - do you know what plant species and materials were used?
ReplyDeleteWow that garden in Hong Kong looks amazing, when I visited over 20 years ago we visited the Tiger Balm gardens which were more of a theme park. I have always wanted to visit the Kimberley if I ever go to Australia again - such a magical country
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ReplyDeletegood job you no longer have to buy film and pay for processing !!
ReplyDeleteSo glad you and Dustin got together -- wish I didn't have to work that week. What an amazing amount of garden travel. Can't wait to read more of your impressions.
ReplyDeleteThe red sand garden is so vibrant - it looks like it's from Mars!
ReplyDeleteThe red sand garden is so awesome- it is superb.niagara falls
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