Visiting Kew Gardens in London was a great experience. I recommend it to any one who is thinking of making a visit

A beautiful scene, Dawn. It looks so peaceful there. :heart:

A Photograph of the Palm House.

Yes Joy it was very peaceful . It was Autumn too so all the trees had their changing colours. The day I went, there were very few people visiting, so walking around listening to the autumn breezes rustling through the giant trees, with almost no other sounds, was to me awesome. The grounds were larger than I expected. So not being a great forward planner of things, I ended up having a lovely adventure discovering different parts of it.

Such beautiful autumn colours, Dawn. This is something we don't see where we live.

Yes I know what you mean . We don't get such vivid changes in autumn here either. So I love it. Perthshire, in Scotland is a sight to behold in the autumn as it is covered in trees .

The Temperate House

The waterlily House was a highlight for me. My camera lens were misting up from the humidity. So I had to try and take photos quickly after each wipe of the lens.

Such wonderful gardens, Dawn. It looks as though you could spend a week just looking through it all. Your images give us some wonderful glimpses of them. Many thanks.

What I meant to say was it was a highlight for me to see those giant lily pads, not because the lens was misting up

Joybells wrote:Such wonderful gardens, Dawn. It looks as though you could spend a week just looking through it all. Your images give us some wonderful glimpses of them. Many thanks.

Well one would certainly need at least a day I would think, and several visits if one could manage it as that would give you time to explore everthing, as really there is so much to go through.
I am glad you enjoyed them it was a pleasure for me to go through them again.

The tree top walk. I made it to the top but just couldn't manage to walk around it


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This is the view I had when I was on my way out

Lastly look what I found in the nursery

Eighty nine pounds (don't have the pound symbol on my keyboard ) is a lot to pay for a Wollemi Pine but there is a royalty to be paid for conservation of the Wollemi pine & other threatened species. Ours was the most expensive plant we have bought. Do you know whether these baby trees are grown at Kew or are they the ones grown in Australia, Dawn???

That reminds me, I must post about our wonderful Wollemi Pine.

Dawn wrote:The tree top walk. I made it to the top but just couldn't manage to walk around it

Ooooh, doubt that I could even make to the top of the treetop walk, Dawn, let alone walk around it. Think I would just have to imagine what the tree tops looked like.

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Lovely images, Dawn. Thank you, again.

Joybells wrote:Eighty nine pounds (don't have the pound symbol on my keyboard ) is a lot to pay for a Wollemi Pine but there is a royalty to be paid for conservation of the Wollemi pine & other threatened species. Ours was the most expensive plant we have bought. Do you know whether these baby trees are grown at Kew or are they the ones grown in Australia, Dawn???

That reminds me, I must post about our wonderful Wollemi Pine.

I never asked unfortunately Joy, as I had no intention of buying one at the time, and they were about to close.
But my guess is that the original plant or seeds must have come from Australia, then they would have probably grown the ones for sale at Kew.

Re: tree top walk. What got to me was that you could see right through to the ground, once you were up there.

I never even tried to reason with myself, and walking down my legs were very wobbily

Dawn wrote:Re: tree top walk. What got to me was that you could see right through to the ground, once you were up there.

I never even tried to reason with myself, and walking down my legs were very wobbily

Can totally empathise with you on that, Dawn. My legs would have been extremely wobbily, too. :pale:

Found out that the sole grower, licensed by Wollemi Pines Aust, of Wollemi pines for sale in the UK, is based in Cornwall. They would be grown from cuttings & tissue sent from Australia. The seeds are too precious to use, apparently. The ones growing at Kew Gardens are from Australia.

So that would explain the price tag. Can't be cheap to transport these kind of things so far.

They certainly are expensive, Dawn. Perhaps they also wanted to make sure that only those who would truly appreciated them would buy them. Ours was about a quarter of that price & that would have been for a 3 or 4 year old plant. Guess we are lucky.