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Back to Duthie Park Winter Gardens in Aberdeen again. From the main entrance there are several corridors that run off in different directions. We took the tropical shrub one which has many, many exotic tropical beauties in it - as you can see from the first photo. As I said yesterday there is much there that reminds me of Fiji, and of Grimsby and now there are plants that remind me of Libya - now that I have 2 years of Libya under my belt. Strangely there is nothing that reminds me of Angola. For some reason i don't associte the three years i spent in Soyo with plants - okay one year was offshore so you wouldn't expect plants and offshore to be associated but I spent over 2 years working in the Soyo base at the mouth of the Congo on shore but nope - nothing... at a push the sensitive plant which was a coomon weed, and maybe the water hyacinth which would float by just before the Congo hit the sea.... I must look out those photos but nothing really sticks out. I asociate Soyo, Angola more with animals particularly birds - the palm eagles, the ibises, wooly-necked storks, - and insects - water scorpions, preying mantis, swarming ants. Funny that - it had never occured to me before today.
Anywho - back to Duthie park. There is a brochure at the front door which I hoped would be online but I can''t find it and the most information I have found about the park and the gardens are on this website - http://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/duthiepark.htm As i said there are now some plants that remind me of libya - there is the carrionflower which I noted in a previous post and there is also the bindweed Convolvulus (or possibly Calystegia)shown above. A similar plant is running through the Flame trees opposite the office and blooming at the moment. They are a very vibrant blue/purple that almost glows among the green leaves.

Two other climber/shrubs caught my eye in the corridor (apart from the Hibiscuses) but at the moment I have no idea what they are. nThe firat is a very thick petalled flower that is kind of fuchsia like. It almost looks plastic and artifical.
As does the second which ich is a red and yellow plastic hook shaped flower. It doesn't look real and I don't think the flowers were fully open when I snapped them. Apologies for the lack of botanical information on these last two. The photos are presented purely for entertainment.
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