it is hard to take a photograph inside the Palm house – my lens fogged up in the heat and humidity. Anyway it was a very quick visit as I had my 10 year old son in tow who was unlikely to be too interested in horticulture.

When visiting Botanic gardens he is much more interested in a dinosaur skeleton in the nearby Ulster museum or the Egyptian mummy or the lasers and mirrors on the 5th floor. But the Palm house makes a much easier subject to photograph than the museum.

and a close up