Kew Gardens

After spending an great evening with some of Geoff's friends Gus and Lydia, we met Lucy's aunt Jenny for a day at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.


The gardens are large with well established trees and large Victorian Glasshouses.  We only managed half the garden in a full day!  It was so lovely to have a sunny day and to wander down long grassy avenues of trees with bare feet!

The Sackler bridge in over one of the lakes. Geoff had seen this in an architectural exhibition in Munich and was keen to find out what  all the fuss was about. It didn't disappoint. 

 One of our favourite places was the tree top walk through the Deciduous Canopy. Apparently Kirstenbosch is considering something similar - though we're not sure who would approve the EIA for this...

View down to one of the Victorian glasshouses from the treetop walk.

The temperate vegetation Glasshouse - view from the upper walkway inside.

We have been really lucky to use Jenny and Charles Smithermans home as a base where we can dump things, do washing, and come and go over the couple of months that we're away. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Geoff, Jenny, Lucy, Charles, Mary and Andrew.