A cold day at Kew Gardens yet the beauty stays.
I observed so many different patterns and shapes this time.
The ‘Smilex’ with its heart shaped leaves and thorns.
Again I tried to take photos with a bokeh- effect as good as I can with my Phone Camera.
Look at those amazing patterns of 2 very different plants.
It is wonderful to have been able to share this visit with a wonderful friend.
A sweet friendship refreshes the soul. Proverbs 27.9
This time I went to Kew to find the Autumn colours.
My blogger friend Colleen loves to travel and loves Kew,
so I invited Colleen along to enjoy the Gardens.
She loved the yellow Ginko Tree,
behind is a golden Larch just starting to colour.
Along the bridge a variety of colours…….
hang on Colleen I need to catch up.
This is a very tall Monkey Puzzle Tree.
We looked at it closely.
It looked more like a column.
Amazing nature ♥
I couldn’t stop Colleen climbing this Bonsai Tree.
We needed a break and sat down for lunch and a chat.
Colleen brought enough for all in the rucksack, thank you.
On our way we found this beautiful Autumn tree
and rustled through the Autumn leaves.
Thank you Colleen, I’m so happy you could come.
We were having so much fun in Kew Gardens together!!!
I loved every minute of it!!!
♥ Sharing is having more ♥
The best way to multiply your happiness is to share it with others.
As the seasons change – Kew Garden does too. We went to the Japanese Festival in Kew.
God's beauty never ends. We just need to take time to open our eyes to see it, to feel it and to experience all it can be. Laura D Field
In the Temperate house we saw Art work
‘A thousand Springs’ from Chiharu Shiota.
5000 Haikus – in Japanese – referencing nature – suspended on red threads
while listening to beautiful music by a Japanese composer.
The Chalk Garden was a mixture of chalky English limestone and beautiful Japanese planting.
We saw colours with Bonsai Trees
I’ll leave you with a Japanese proverb
One who smiles rather than rages is always stronger.
Wishing everyone a great weekend !
Another trip to Kew Gardens – this time I found lovely different shapes in the plants. We walked through the rainforest, grasses and admired another beautiful open waterlily.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing something beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. Ralph Waldo Emerson
God was very creative making wonderful shapes for us to admire.
We saw a fruit in different stages
God gave us eyes to see the beauty of nature and hearts to see the beauty in each other.
This time in Kew Gardens I admired the flowers and learnt some Photography tips from my Photographer friend I went with.
I learnt to focus on the flower with a blurry background. This was even possible with my Mobile phone camera and I was so happy that this worked well.
Please click on the individual picture to enlarge it. I’m proud how the pictures came out.
This little fellow fell on my trousers while we had lunch under an Oak tree.
He was not even 1 cm long.
We passed a fascinating tree, a Maritime Pine which did not grow straight. The bark was smoother on one side and really rugged on the other.
We stayed so long we nearly needed a lantern home….
A sweet friendship refreshes the soul. Proverbs 27:9
A new day – a new visit to my favourite Kew Gardens
A walk with a friend through Kew, drinking in the many beautiful colours of plants, I don’t remember the names of.
Here a collage of the beautiful mix.
There are some Eucalytus trees, it fascinated me that there are blooms, fruits and unripe fruits on the same tree at the same time.
Sometimes …. just spending some quality time with good friends is the only therapy you need.
Norwich is a very old city in Norfolk with a beautiful Cathedral, a castle and a lovely towncentre with a market.
We had a house close to the citycentre to our disposal and discovered Norwich by foot daily.
We found a beautiful little garden ‘Plantation Garden‘ also called the Secret garden which was built at the site of a Chalk Quarry. Henry Trevor shaped the garden in 1855. It is an oasis for tranquility, we loved it every day!
In the Cathedral there was Dippy, the famous skeleton of the Diplodocus which is usually in London in the Natural History Museum. He is on tour and currently in Norwich.
It was very impressive.
Norwich has plenty of churches, we discovered though that many are not for worship. We found an art centre in a church, a bookshop with coffee shop and one was full of antiques for sale.
Norwich is a University city too, the – some cobbled- streets a lovely, the market beautiful and the little narrow lanes in between have old houses with quirky shops.
We have been in Norwich before (2017) and saw the Castle , blog post here
Let us find magic in all the little things in life.
Our next stop was Rye a small English town by the coast in East Sussex. In the centre, cobbled lanes like Mermaid Street are lined with medieval, half-timbered houses. Mermaid Street is most famous where the Mermaid Inn is located which was used by smugglers. The historic houses date back from 15th century – many are 500 and 600 years old. You find also a Castle and the Ypres Tower.
Many of the old houses in the centre have lovely names above the door:
The house with two doors
The house with the seat
The house oppsite
Every house is made up beautifully with flowers in the front. I can imagine they are rather quirky inside.
Outer beauty is what the eyes can see,
inner beauty can only be seen through the heart.
~ Cagla Bicer ~
The Waterlily house is open again, hurray, of course with limited amount of people going in at a time.
Some close ups:
The Rose Garden was amazing, all roses blooming and giving their wonderful scent to us.
I found some beautiful coloured flowers, which I thought need a bit of ironing…only joking 🙂 The crumbly look made them even more special, they were rather delicate in both colours.
A special playful large scale bench waited for us to simply sit, relax and smell the planted circle of rock roses in the middle and enjoy nature.
New growth coming form every tree, and plant. I always love to see growth.
Every time I visit I find different plants, flowers and enjoy nature more than ever. It pushes happiness button every time and makes me grateful to live in such a wonderful world.
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our head.
We went along to Bateman's, which was Rudyard Kipling's house for 34 years and were he died in 1936. It is a 17th century house, beautiful with vast land around as Rudyard Kipling bought more land during his time there. Rudyard Kipling's most famous fiction is the Jungle book. Rudyard Kipling was the most famous author in England,and was earning £5,000 per year; the cost of Bateman's, £9,300, was thus entirely affordable. ( A secretary earned around £80 a year). He wrote many stories in this house, his American wife made sure he would not be disturbed uncessessay.
Outer beauty is what the eyes can see,
inner beauty can only be seen through the heart.
~ Cagla Bicer ~
His rather large blue Rolls Royce from the 1920’s was displayed in the garage. He loved that car. It was behind glass and the picture did not come out.
Ute smile 