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| Kiernan Joliat | profile | all galleries >> Travel >> London Semester 2004 >> England >> Kew Gardens | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 A view across the gardens. |
 Another grounds view. There are old houses all over the park. |
 A palm frond in the Palm House, the famous Victorian conservatory. |
 The world's best food comes from these... cacao pods (Theobroma cacao). |
 Inside the Palm House. It's not that dark in there, I just forgot to put the flash on. |
 A pretty unidentified plant. |
 Bananas (Musa sapientum) in the Palm House. |
 The Palm House from the outside. |
 Rose beds, pruned for winter. |
 A mangrove tree (Rhizophora mangle) in the Princess of Wales Conservatory. |
 The water garden in the PWC. |
 Desert plants in the PWC. |
 A fountain in the gardens. |
 Beautyberry - Callicarpa americana. |
 Rhododendron 'Pink Delight.' |
 A type of grass whose name I've forgotten, growing in the PWC. |
 Ripening lemons (Citrus limon) in the Temperate House. |
 Another rhododendron, whose species I've forgotten. (I should have brought my notebook.) |
 Holly - Ilex aquifolium. |
 An elm with a nice low branch for sitting. |
 Kew's pagoda, which was the tallest freestanding structure in the kingdom in 1762. |
 Syon House, across the Thames. Sorry for the blur, I took this from the moving tram. |
 A blurry shot of Kew Palace, taken from the tram. |
 Near Kew's Victoria Gate, decked out for Christmas. |
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