The Royal Botanic Garden Kew is a paradise of plants, including this unmistakable London icon, the Palm House. Kew is the largest botanical garden in the world. A World Heritage Site and a centre of international importance. It’s also a place of history, founded as a royal garden by Augusta the mother of George III. It was opened to the public in 1759.
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A garden left untended soon becomes a wilderness. The restoration of the Lost Gardens at Heligan, in Cornwall was a fascinating project. The return of the many lingering features of the garden’s once glorious past has captured the public’s imagination.
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A voice had begun to sing…… Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth itself …..it was beyond comparison the most beautiful noise he had ever heard……it seemed to him that the stars were singing.
The voice of Aslan singing Narnia into being – from C.S.Lewis’s ‘The Magician’s Nephew.
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As autumn arrives in historic Ludlow, Shropshire, the Norman Castle shines in the autumn sunlight. Those blue remembered hills in the distance wait beckoning us.
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A Listening Heart 