RHS Wisley 2009 (January)



January


10 January


The day-time temperature is -3C. In fact the day-time temperature has not risen above zero for a week or 10 days by now and the night time temperature is usually -2C to -4C and has been down to -8C or more. So the ground has been rock solid for quite a while and the ponds frozen. As you will see ...


Entrance and looking to Battleston Hill


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Frosty fields


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Bonsai garden


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Various frosted leaves


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Frosted spiders webs


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Fruit gardens


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Vegetable garden and area


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Looking to rock garden


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Frosted trees


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Frozen ponds in the rock garden


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Ducks in icy pond


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The remaining frozen ponds in the rock garden


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Glasshouse lake


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Frosted grasses


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Heading to the Glasshouse


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All steamed up (in the Glasshouse)


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In the Glasshouse


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Ponsetias


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Study in frost


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Ducks walking on water


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Duck sit-down


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Frosted branches


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Ducks on frozen pond


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Frozen pond and trees


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Bird feeder


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Sheltered garden (frosted spiders web)


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House and canal pond


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18 January


Butterflies in the Glasshouse


Currently there is a display Butterflies in the Glasshouse at RHS Garden Wisley (18 January - 22 February 2009) on at Wisley. See also the BBC web-page Butterflies offer winter escape.


Below are a few of the butterflies when we could actually find them among the foliage.


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Remainder of the Glasshouse


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In the gardens: warm reds by the pond


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The River (no longer in flood)


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24 January


Butterflies in the Glasshouse


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The River (in flood again)


The river was very high again and some parts of the riverside path inaccessible. Large areas of the golf-course opposite were also flooded.


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