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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Several of Jane Austin’s novels are set in the Georgian City of Bath during the elegance of the Regency period. But you will find the real Jane Austen, not in Bath, but in her home village of Chawton, Hampshire.
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In a disturbing new world of international chaos and power politics we return to this place of calm and sanity set amidst nature’s healing peace. This is a creative writer’s paradise.
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A Listening Heart 