A little Kew Miscellany – everything else from a chill Tuesday in January (or Heraldic Beasts and where to find them)
Just mopping up with the remainder of the photographs taken last week when I headed off to Kew Gardens, warmed up in the Princess of Wales Conservatory and then joined the ‘Meet the Experts’ tour talking all things Snowdrop. A random selection though I wish you could take in the delicious fragrance from the Chimonanthus and the two Sarcococcas – a heady rich, spicy mix. Finally, a closer look at the Heraldic Beast that line the parterre by the Palm […]
Categories: Climbing plants, Fragrant plants, General comment, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Winter Garden • Tags: Chimonthus praecox Grandiflorum, Detail of Drinking Fountain, Dry January, Edgworthia chrysantha, Grass Borders in January, Greyhound of Richmond, James Woodford OBE RA, Kew botanicals, Kew Gardens, Kew Gin, Lapageria rosea, Portland Stone, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, Salvia Border in January, Sarcoccoca confusa, Sarcococca hookeriana var dignya Purple Stem, Temple of Aeolus, The Black Bull of Clarence, The Broad Walk, The Falcon of the Plantagenets, The Griffin of Edward III, The Lion of England, The Queen's Beasts, The Red Dragon of Wales, The Unicorn of Scotland, The White Horse of Hanover, The White Lion of Mortimer, The Yale of Beaufort, Viburnum x bodnantense
