Every year Kew Gardens has an orchids festival and every year I go to it. It is easy to see why.
They take over most of Princess of Wales Conservatory and this year they did so with a Thailand theme. That was shown in the designs, such as this temple, and in the music (not pictured).
As always I got there for the 10am opening on a Sunday and went straight to the conservatory. Everybody else was going to the same place so it was already lively by the time that I walked in but it was not too busy to be frustrating. Waiting for people to move out of the way of a photo you are trying to take can take a while particularly when they are oblivious to the situation.
There was no such problem with the many elevated displays. These also allowed me to capture some of the conservatory with the flowers, I like to mix the natural and the manufactured, and in this case I also included some of the paper lanterns in the shot.
It did not matter where the orchids were placed or how they were arranged, they always looked wonderful.
There are usually some animal objects of some king in among the flowers and while this year's elephant failed to impress me I did like the buffalo.
But the orchids were, rightly, the stars of the shows so it is only fair to finish with a closer look at some of them.
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