Kew 2 - The Gardens

Now we're in the gardens proper. This is also home to KSA (Kew Space Agency).
The Princess of Wales House has 4 different climate habitats and is dedicated to Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha rather the more recent mad one - though Princess Battiness herself did open it.
The Giant Water Lily. It is said that you could put a 3 year old child on one of its leaves. It won't support the kid's weight, of course, but it's funny as hell watching the brat half drown; 'No, Johnny, it's perfectly safe - just like in the fairy tales'.
Cactuses, or something.
The Willy Plant.
My water feature is better than your water feathure.
Ooo, an even better water feature.
The Palm House with some nice flower beds.
Inside the Palm House you can climb up to a gallery and look down on people.
Roses and old people. Both attract the birds.
Some pretty flowers who's name escapes me.
The Kew Pagoda.
The Temperate House.
And a detail of the Temperate House which is a fine old Victorian building. (Not Victorian in the sense of the rather dull Australian state, you understand, Victorian in the sense of the old biddy who used to be queen.
Some temperate flowers. How do we know? They are in the Temperate House.
Some Temperate nobbly things.
A sort of Japanesy thingy.
And a Japanese garden, woot.
Aha, a folly. Land owners used to build these things in their gardens. They are sort of little buildings in the style of something or other (a lot of clasical stuff as in this example). They would be put in certain vantage points around the place and some of them had hermits invited to live in them to spice it up a bit.
Home the quick way. Kew tube station - and it's got a pub!