It certainly pays to make an early start, especially on such a bright and beautiful morning – and even more so when school holidays are upon us and Kew Gardens becomes a beautiful flower-filled playground and a great spot for a family picnic. For someone as bah-humbug as I about having unpopulated pictures – flowers not people – it was a near-run past the Palm House and through the still-slumbering Rose Garden to the Cherry Orchard that runs from just […]

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