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I expect by the next time I photograph this rose, David Austin's Kew Gardens, it will be a riot of single, creamy white flowers held in enormous hydrangea-like heads, eruptions of blooms that will continue in great, big flushes all through the summer. At the moment it is in furious bud, waiting on just a…

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A display of crocus, RHS Wisley

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Almost time for the annual display of crocus - this photograph taken on 2nd March last year (at RHS Wisley). The displays at Kew should be even more extensive, with several hundred thousand new bulbs being added in the last few years. 2010 and 2011 were both pretty dry years and the annual show was…

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Kew Orchid Festival 9th February – 3rd March

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Kew Orchid Festival 9th February - 3rd MarchMake time if you can, to visit this near month long, quite extraordinary festival of orchids and other exotics in the Princess of Wales Conservatory, starting next Saturday. Last year it was magical, intensely colourful, hugely imaginative and BIG! I don't doubt it will be bolder and brighter…

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