Gasteria armstrongii - Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam-002

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de Hortus Botanicus in Spring, Easter bank holiday weekend. Only €6 and better than Alton Towers.

Acer, Honingboom

Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam 2017

Taken at the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam.

Visit ideonexus.com for daily doses of ionian enchantment.

Pleione forrestii - Orchiade 2010 - Hortus Botanicus - Leiden

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 23, 2006. Photo taken with Nikon EM film camera.

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peony with bee

(For the blog.)

If you know what these are, shout it out - I didn't get the names of everything we saw.

Geranium endressii, commonly called Endres cranesbill or French crane's-bill, is a species of hardy flowering herbaceous perennial plant in the genus Geranium, Geraniaceae family.

It is native to the Western Pyrenees in Spain, and is cultivated as a garden subject. It has a mounding to sprawling habit, therefore is useful as groundcover in light shade. The flowers are soft pink with red veins.

This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Tasmanian fern tree

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Seriously, there is a heart at the center of these lily pads.

Hortus Botanicus Leiden 425 year

Amsterdam, Summer 2016

Even on a pricey tour such as ours there's an inevitable shoppping stop.