Blogs on botanical gardens

Orchids in Singapore Botanical Gardens

Last month I returned from a 5 week trip which took me to Australia by way of Viet Nam, Cambodia and Singapore. In the southern...

A day at The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

This was going to be a blog about the glorious herbaceous borders in the garden but as soon as we stepped out of the new...

National Botanic Garden of Wales - a few shots

Went for a visit the other week, thought it wasnt too bad. Heres a couple of shots, enjoy.

Especially for Hywel...An afternoon at St Andrews Botanic Gardens

Yesterday a friend and I visited St Andrews Botanic Garden. I haven't been for...must be 10 years anyway. So, firstly we...

The National Botanic Garden of Wales - introduction (part 2)

I didn't see much of the grounds. It was very windy, and I only had the afternoon, so it was impossible. It is so big you...

The National Botanic Garden of Wales - Introduction (part 1)

----- Gardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru---- - This is only 12 miles from my home, but I had never been there until a few days...

Afternoon at Kew Gardens

i only had a few hours spare and i was right by Kew so i thought Why not, it's change a bit since the last time i was there... first...

Visit to Kew

I've wanted to go all my life, so it was fantastic, even though I was too late for the erithroniums. The tree top walk was...

A walk in the park ( 2 )

And there's more from our Bicton park visit, This is the shell house Bob standing under one of the many huge tree's here The...

Amsterdam Botanic Gardens....Highlights

Yes, so here we are in Amsterdam again. The Canal cruises are great fun, you definitely get the best views of the city from...

A walk in the park

As promised , On our latest trip we went to Bicton Park here in S Devon, Bob managed it all the way round on his scooter,...

Bromelias, Cacti and Palms at Botanical Garden

The main gate: Some palms: The cacti and succulents: And the Bromelias Almost forgot.... the...

Orchids at the Botanical Garden in Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

The Botanical Garden in Rio de Janeiro was originally intended for the acclimatisation of spices like nutmeg, pepper and...

Botanic Gardens Cambridge

On the 18th April we went to Cambridge to get the car it's service and MOT. Why Cambridge? Well we have an MG and the garage...

VENTNOR BOTANICAL GARDENS - CRY FOR HELP!!!

Well, hello everybody, it has been 5 months since I last had a comment on here. I have been working full time and have been...

2009 Scotland holiday: St. Andrews Botanic gardens part 3.

I have just found these other photos taken in the botanic gardens. Hope you all enjoy them! Yes I know this isn't a plant...

2009 Scotland holiday: St. Andrews Botanic gardens part 2.

As promised, some more photos from this really wonderful place. For more information about the gardens, visit their website. The...

2009 Scotland holiday: St. Andrews Botanic gardens part 1.

We like Scotland. In fact, we would move there given the chance, but since that is not likely to happen any time soon, we...

Cambridge Botanical Gardens 2

Here is blog No.2 on my visit to the Cambridge Botanical Gardens about a month ago. As we are well into autumn I thought...

Cambridge Botanical Gardens (1)

*On the 14th of September I went to visit the Cambridge Botanical Gardens. I had only ever visited the gardens once before,...

Edinburgh Botanic Gardens - The return visit!

Yesterday I took the train back to Edinburgh. I did a blog about the Botanic Gardens Glasshouses back in May and ever since...

KEW Royal Botanic Garden - London _ UK

The first though that came to my mind, when I received the advertising about this seminar in Bournemouth was.... London Gardens,...

Chelsea Physic Garden

My Dear husband organised an absolutely brilliant day out in London on Thursday as a little extra birthday treat! Not so...

MEXICO - Chapultepec Botanic garden

I've been busy working these last months, and also have travelled to Mexico to attend a Conference in education. GOY is alwys...

Edinburgh Botanic Gardens

Yesterday I had my belated birthday 'day out'. The weather actually felt pretty much like March which was appropriate! Scott...

Longwood Gardens...Visit 2

We went back to Longwood Gardens just 2 weeks after the first time....My hubby wanted to see the spring bulbs in bloom. They...

Orchids at Longwood Gardens

Okay now...I make no pretense about Orchids...they are, thats all ....they are. They are beautiful, they are unique, etc,...

Longwood Gardens...Visit 1

Just over two hours from here is a botanical garden worth driving for. The Longwood Gardens is a 1,050-acre wonder, with...

Collage resedential

Well I am off to Logan botanics tomorrow for a couple of days with the collage, Logan is situated near port patrick on the...

Dundee Botanic Garden (3)

Linked to the tropical glasshouse (biome) is a temperate collection, mainly cacti and aloes, but with some other flowering...

University of Dundee Botanic Garden (2)

The single large glasshouse here is separated into two "biomes", one tropical, the other temperate. Approach to west entrance...

University Of Dundee Botanic Garden (1)

The University of Dundee Botanic Garden (known, affectionately, as The Botanics) is a real "youngster", as far as botanic...

VANCOUVER 2010.... another look at the UBC BOTANICAL GARDEN.

Back on 10th January 2009, I wrote a blog about the University of British Columbia Botanical Garden, Vancouver, Canada..... .....that...

GOBSMACKED....but DELIGHTED...100 year old photo...!

Earlier this week GoY member, David, asked me to put two pictures from one of my blogs, onto my GoY photo page, so that...

Kew shop~!

Hi all!~ just had my Kew quarterly mag and to let those of you who might be interested know that Kew Gardens have a new...

Kew's Millenium seed bank achieves 10% target

I received a letter today in the post about the Millenium seed bank at Wakehurst Place because I donate a monthly amount. They...

EXETER UNIVERSITY BOTANIC GARDENS

The British Conifer Society AGM meeting was held at Reed Hall situated on Streatham Campus at the University of Exeter. The...

The Caribbean

My wife and I went on a Caribbean cruise for our honeymoon this January taking in 12 islands in 14 days. I thought I would...

A tropical day out.

I,m back to nightshift tonight, my wife was working today and kids were at college and school so had the day to myself. I...

A walk around Kew~take 2

~ This is the other side to our trip last weekend~ it was a nice warm day and there were two school trips there ,the children...

Kew Gardens~a walk in the trees

Our last days in London were spent at Kew Gardens~ although really suffering in places from drought conditions there was...

A summer trip to Kew

We had a bit of time available before travelling home so we went to Kew Gardens for a few hours. I was so pleased they had...

An alternative view of Kew

~We had a few hours yesterday afternoon before returning home to Swansea. It was a lovely day at Kew with lots of people...

Ventnor Botanical Gardens - frost damage

This is a blog to follow on from the one I posted on 26th December-Boxing Day, Winter Warmer............................... After...

UBC BOTANICAL GARDEN ~ VANCOUVER ~ CANADA

Special thanks to Daniel Mosquin of UBC for his kind help with photos. BUILD-UP TO 2010 The next Winter Olympics will be...

Beautiful Boxing Day 2008 - Winter warmer

What a gorgeous day it has been today, a bit of a bitter easterly which kept things dry, but the sun was warming. the invite...

Sunny Weekend

What a beautiful weekend it was. On Saturday we went to the Botanical Gardens in Ventnor to take out the in-laws. It was...

A visit to the Botanical Gardens in Vacratot, Hungary

As we are officially on holiday we decided that today we would walk round tha Botanical Gardens which are very close to our...

Botanic Garden Gran Canaria

Thought I would share these pics of my vist to Gran Canaria last Nov 07. We went to the botanical garden which is situated...