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Even in a rainy garden this 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢 is looking bright like a star.🌟 ⁠
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🌠The star magnolia is now in full bloom in the Hortus garden! It's a slow-growing shrub or small tree, native to Japan. The white flowers are quite large and appear in early spring, before the leaves appear.

Happy Monday! This was taken by illustrator and Hortus visitor @wanqing.illustrator. Thank you for immortalizing our Palmhouse interior!💚⁠
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✍🏼🎨Many people come to the Hortus not only to walk around and enjoy our collection, but also to paint, draw, write or to just get inspired by all the different shades of green!⁠
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😍What's your favourite thing to do in the Hortus?

𝘈𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘢 or blue anemone is a cheery, daisy like species with bright purple-blue flowers. ⁠
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💙 They form a mat-like ground cover in our spring garden.⁠
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😍Look at this cheerful beauty!⁠
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🌻This is common cowslip (𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘴), native throughout most of Europe and western Asia. ⁠
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🍷The plant and flowers are used in different cuisines. Uses in English cookery include using the flowers to flavor country wine. Botanical and ornithological illustrator and author 𝗔𝗻𝗻𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘁 wrote the following about the cowslip:⁠
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"𝐼𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑑𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑑, 𝑎 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑙 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑤𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑝 𝑓𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑒𝑟, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒-𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑐𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑡𝑠 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑠."

😍Have you seen the flowers of 𝘉𝘳𝘶𝘨𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘢 in our Palmhouse yet?

The subtle blue of this 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘪 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 or grape hyacinth makes for a lovely sight in our garden. It's a popular ornamental plant, but did you know you can also use it to make 𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗲? ⁠
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🍋All it takes is 2 cups of harvested grape hyacinth flowers, some lemon juice, 1,5 cups of sugar and 3,5 cups of water. Make sure to infuse the flowers in hot water for at least one or two hours first, to get the right taste.⁠
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🤩Have you ever tried it?⁠
(Also works great with gin, if you're in for an exciting spring cocktail...🍹)

🌞Happy Wednesday! We love this sunny shot inside our Palm Greenhouse, taken by visitor @sarahsharker. Thank you!🌴

This isn't just a plant, but also a house. Actually, multiple tiny houses. ⁠
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⁉️But... how does that work?⁠
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🦞You're looking at 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘢; or 'red lobster claw', native to South-America. The young leaves and bracts retain water, forming pools called 𝗽𝗵𝘆𝘁𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗮.⁠
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🐸These plant-held water bodies occur all over the world, and include bromeliads, pitcher plants and tree holes. They form a habitat for a variety of species. For instance, different frog species use them as breeding grounds. Insects use them for breeding and foraging as well; such as dragonflies, several water bugs, beetles and dipterans. ⁠
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🏠️So, this 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 isn't just a pretty plant, but also a safe home for small invertebrates. You can find it in our Tropical Greenhouse!

This strange-looking plant is 𝘗𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘢. It can be found in our Tropical Greenhouse, trailing on the ground.⁠
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🪸Coral pitcairnia is native to Colombia and Peru and belongs to the bromeliad family. It produces long flower stalks from between its leaves, and from the tips of the stalks it produces inflorescences with bright red flowers (that are actually bracts). The real flowers are tiny yellow ones, that emerge from between the bracts.

A few more stunning photographs of visitor @imrachelhine, which she kindly shared with us after her trip to the Hortus garden.💚 ⁠
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🦋The velvety black butterfly on the first photo is 𝘗𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘭𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘢 𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘢𝘦, or common rose.

🌹𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝗲𝘇𝘂𝗲𝗹𝗮🌹: a very romantic and enchanting common name for 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘯𝘦𝘢 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘴, now flowering in our Tropical Greenhouse.⁠
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It's a relatively small tree, usually growing up to only 4 - 6 metres in height. So, in the dim light of the dense tropical undergrowth, flowers must really stand out to be seen at all. Therefore this species produces big, scarlet-red flower clusters that stand out in a striking contrast!

🌈These colourful flowers surrounding our birch tree belong to 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘥𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘷𝘢, or hollowroot. It can form dense carpets of both pink and white flowers, or sometimes even mauve, purple or red. ⁠
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🐝This species is an important source of nectar and is frequented by bumblebees and wild, solitary bees. ⁠
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👉🏼𝗦𝘄𝗶𝗽𝗲 to see a round and fuzzy friend visiting the flowers.👀 ⁠

If you've walked through our garden recently, you may have stumbled upon this elegant shrub: it's 𝘌𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘳𝘺𝘴𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘢 (or 𝘌𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘴𝘢), common name Oriental paperbush.⁠
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🐉The Latin epithet 'chrysantha' is in reference to the plant's yellow flowers. The one in Hortus is a 'Red Dragon' variety, with orange red flowers. ⁠
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👉🏾𝗦𝘄𝗶𝗽𝗲 to see the clusters close-up: such delicate little flowers!

Slowly but surely, 𝘝𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘢 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘢 started flowering in our Subtropical Greenhouse. Don't you just love its inflorescence?😍⁠
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🧅This beauty is commonly known as forest lily or sand onion, and native to the south-eastern Cape. Its pollinated by birds. The only other species in this genus is 𝘝𝘦𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘢 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴, also in our collection.

📸Hortus visitor @imrachelhine sent us these wonderful photographs, that she took during her visit a little over a week ago. ⁠
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💚Here's a selection of them. Thank you so much.🌱 ⁠
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