As the New Year is about to begin what is the best time to visit Kew? Or
any other botanical gardens, e.g. Birmingham come to that.

Remember the early bird may catch the worm but the second mouse gets the
cheese.

On 30/11/2012 17:29, Broadback wrote:
As the New Year is about to begin what is the best time to visit Kew? Or
any other botanical gardens, e.g. Birmingham come to that.

Remember the early bird may catch the worm but the second mouse gets the
cheese.



It is such a huge and varied place, it is better to visit it several
times a year to see different things. It is lovely in Spring with many
bulbs in bloom. If you appreciate Rhodies and other acid-lovers, then
May/June would be a good time. I've never seen it with Autumn colours,
but I imagine that would be great. It depends on your particular
interest. I would love to go during their orchid event.

--
Spider
from high ground in SE London
gardening on clay

"Broadback" wrote ...

As the New Year is about to begin what is the best time to visit Kew? Or
any other botanical gardens, e.g. Birmingham come to that.

Remember the early bird may catch the worm but the second mouse gets the
cheese.

Depends what you are interested in. The greenhouses are beautiful all year
round but the tropical waterlily house will be empty this time of year and
only open in the summer. Likewise the alpine house is best in the
autumn/winter/spring months. The "wild" area around Queen Charlottes Cottage
is at it's best when the bluebells are carpeting the ground, Rhododendron
Dell is obviously best in spring too and the Rock Garden is best
spring/summer. If you want to pin my down then late spring/summer is the
best time as it is in most gardens.
Personally if it's a bright day it's worth going any time of the year but
then we are "friends" so don't have to fork out the large entrance fee each
time.
BTW, the food is expensive and often not to our taste, seen some weird
"modern" sandwich fillings, so we tend to take a backpack.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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"Broadback" wrote in message
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As the New Year is about to begin what is the best time to visit Kew?


Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!)
And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer's wonderland;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!)

(Alfred Noyes)

Steve

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 17:29:30 +0000, Broadback
wrote:

As the New Year is about to begin what is the best time to visit Kew? Or
any other botanical gardens, e.g. Birmingham come to that.

Remember the early bird may catch the worm but the second mouse gets the
cheese.

There is always a splendid range of stuff to see at Kew, other than
during the winter perhaps. If you can spare the time and you are into
monumental engineering, pop over the bridge to the Kew Bridge Steam
Museum which has the most wonderful collection of gigantic Cornish
beam engines, truly a magnificent sight when operating.
--
rbel

"rbel" wrote
Broadback wrote:

As the New Year is about to begin what is the best time to visit Kew? Or
any other botanical gardens, e.g. Birmingham come to that.

Remember the early bird may catch the worm but the second mouse gets the
cheese.

There is always a splendid range of stuff to see at Kew, other than
during the winter perhaps. If you can spare the time and you are into
monumental engineering, pop over the bridge to the Kew Bridge Steam
Museum which has the most wonderful collection of gigantic Cornish
beam engines, truly a magnificent sight when operating.

Every year the Kew Steam Museum have a WW11 weekend when they all dress up
in WW11 costume, play radio shows from that era and all the engines are
working. Great day out.
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
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