When the rain started it was time to head for the Glasshouse, or glasshouses should I say as the one you see here is only the first part, you know the one where they take your money. You then go through a door to be hit with the heat and humidity and what with the rain on the glass above, you could well be in the rain forest. The diversity of plant shapes and forms is incredible as you move from one environment to another through Star Trek style doors (ok, I exaggerate a bit). The colours are very intense and they even have Winnie the Pooh style swizzle sticks, I guess the 100 Acre Wood must have been in the rain forest, either that or Great Britain was in the middle of a global warming catastrophe when AA Milne did his bit.
Maybe all the plants were in fact made of plastic and its just one big con as most of us will never make it to the rainforest to find out, or maybe its just the old cynic in me. Either way, when you're next in Edinburgh go to the Royal Botanical Gardens...or don't, its your choice, I mean what do I care if you want to miss the chance to see plants like this, call yourself a horticulturalist...
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