Helen Stephenson's RHS Wisley Garden Pictures - May 9th, 2009 - Greenhouse

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On this page, I have presented pictures of some of the plants which we saw growing indoors in the Greenhouse at RHS Wisley.

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On entry to the greenhouse, there was a display of foxgloves. Later in the season, I know where I can find foxgloves growing wild, but in the spring, specimens in a greenhouse are probably the only ones with flowers like these.



The Carnation Society had an exhibition in the greenhouse.

								There were a great many carnations on display, but this one turned out the best in my photographs.

There were numerous orchids on display.





The picture on the left is of plants growing near the orchids, while the picture on the right of the hanging foliage was just through a doorway into the tropical area of the greenhouse.



Here are some more plants from the tropical area. The flowers in the two pictures on the right are in very spectacular colours.



Now this is the point at which I recommend that if you are currently drinking a beverage of any dscription that you put down your cup/mug/glass and swallow... Here we have some bananas. I think we also have a flower spike. Whatever its function, Stephen overheard another greenhouse visitor remarking that if you had anything that looked like that, you would be wise to keep it covered up!



Here are some more plants from the tropical area. I believe that the leaves on the right belong to a begonia. I thought that they looked very pretty and colourful.



Now we've moved into the arid zone of the greenhouse where there were cactus plants to be seen.



My final three images are of an agave, an aenium, and a plant whose details I didn't record. Actually, I didn't record the details of the others, but we have been growing agaves and aeniums at home. In fact, we had this black aneium in a pot last year, but lost it over the winter. It's not hardy, but we found that while aenium plants don't like the cold, they also don't like our central heating and we just couldn't win. The previous winter was milder and they survived outdoors, but our February snow this year was a bit too much for them. The specimen in the greenhouse at Wisley was pretty healthy, though. The leaf group I have photographed was just one of many branches on the plant.