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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 02:42pm on 25/05/2011
Australia at Kew


I spent Saturday at Kew Gardens with C. and visiting friend J. We wandered across a recent installation of Australian plants. The brightly-colored soil was garish against the steady greens around it, but apparently, this is what Australia looks like. Or at least part of it.

Speaking of Australia, lots of the universe's missing matter has been found there.*

* York contemporaries of mine, please do admire who appears in this article!
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posted by [identity profile] sollersuk.livejournal.com at 01:50pm on 25/05/2011
I visited that part once with an Australian colleague. I found her laughing hysterically at one patch - I think it was Kangaroo's Paws - that was being so carefully nurtured when her father spent most of his time in the garden trying to get rid of them.
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posted by [identity profile] gillpolack.livejournal.com at 02:33pm on 25/05/2011
Bits of us are definitely that colour (near me, in fact). Me, I'm looking forward to seeing exotic plants in their native habitat when I visit. Hawthorn, cowslip - that sort of thing. I'm especially looking forward to squirrels.
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posted by [identity profile] zcat-abroad.livejournal.com at 11:41pm on 25/05/2011
This. I loved seeing oaks, and knowing that gorse was allowed, and not a noxious weed!
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posted by [identity profile] gillpolack.livejournal.com at 12:09am on 26/05/2011
Heather as a plant and not a girl's name! Bluebells in woods. The stuff of dreams.
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posted by [identity profile] drasecretcampus.livejournal.com at 08:49pm on 25/05/2011
Lots of apparently empty space in Australia...

I'd have tried down the back of the sofa first
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posted by [identity profile] zcat-abroad.livejournal.com at 11:42pm on 25/05/2011
Flying over Australia, all you see is that red, with occasional purple lines, which mark the water ways.
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posted by [identity profile] i-ate-my-crusts.livejournal.com at 03:19am on 26/05/2011
Flinders Ranges, all the way.
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posted by [identity profile] naxos.livejournal.com at 01:23pm on 26/05/2011
this red earth definitely reminds me of Francois Peron National Park, or perhaps Broome.
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