Day: May 15, 2018

A few hours at Kew Gardens – the newly re-opened Temperate House, Alliums on the Broadwalk, treetop walkway, the Hive, gorgeous Wisteria, a Rhododendron or three, and laburnum arches, waterlilies, the Davies Alpine House and Rock Garden, peonies galore, many remarkable trees, a Japanese landscape and the Pagoda … and much more-

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, here's a million. Kew Gardens today. Amazing, as ever -

Oranges and Lemons – a Mallorquines Odyssey

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A week away under a Mallorcan sun - on the north-west coast of this beautiful island  at Port de Soller. Not that we were lacking in sunshine at home - we left on the Bank Holiday Monday when temperatures in London were set to reach 27C, but the location, in a horseshoe bay beneath the…

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