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 few of my own rough sketches of Sussex-by-the-Sea with its glorious downs and sea coast, loved by Rudyard Kipling. His Sussex writing reveals a picture of a ‘much storied’ England of the past.
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The traditional life of our old Sussex village, full of character and history, is under threat from yet more inappropriate, expensive housing development. As locals we have had enough and are taking action to save our village. Read the great news of the success of our campaign so far. But there could be a problem – see Latest Update blow.
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A Listening Heart 