Friday, 15 December 2017

Garden Visit : The Royal Botanic Garden, Madrid




To get away from this dreary nasty German winter weather, let's take a trip back to a garden that I visited last June:  the Real Jardin Botanico de Madrid. 

It is a beautifully maintained scientific garden in the middle of the city next to the Prado and the much larger Retiro Park. 




A very good selection of huge trees and shaded areas give respite from the Spanish midday heat.



 Sometimes the labelling could be a improved. Who might you be?


day-lilies

 my old favourite: Romneya coulteri in flower

 Kniphofia "Amsterdam" , a very good colour, that does not grow in Germany.


a heavily scented Jasmine wall


  on Ceratostigma  flowers


Curious parakeet couples in a huge communal nest at the entrance to the Botanic garden.


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