The Hidden Garden

Posted by Richard Irwin (Belper, United Kingdom) on 25 June 2007 in Animal & Insect.

I took this in an artificial tropical garden. Many of these sprung up in Victorian times with travellers bringing back 'exotics' from far away places, and the tradition continues today, although the emphasis is on conservation, not curiosity.

The vignette was to give it a feel closer to a Victorian image type of style by the way

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