As well as the striking statues, Tresco is of course home to some fascinating plants, many of which would be hard to grow on the UK mainland. Here’s a selection…..
Top: bromeliad, Cycas revoluta, passion flower,
Bottom: unknown fungus, hottentot fig, unknown succulent
You can see more pictures in the Plants & Animals image galleries
Usually one to be shy of the camera, today she seemed to be enjoying the attention.
This is the same tree at the same spot and at nearly the same time of year as this picture taken last year…
Living in West London, the site of a flock of parakeets is not as unusual as it may be to other visitors to Kew Gardens, but seeing what must have been well over a hundred surrounding an old field of sunflowers was certainly a unique site.
You can see more pictures of birds in the birds gallery
Autumn has arrived, and after a couple of glorious days (when these shots were taken) it’s now wet and windy. So, great time to start a regular photoblog!
I find these three images interesting – the first one doesn’t look great in the thumbnail, but is much better when enlarged. The third one shows the pitfalls of using a generic Photoshop action to resize Raw image files for uploading, with the colours going very flat compared to the original.