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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John Clare was far from being just a simple country poet. This recently published collection of his work shows him as both naturalist and nature writer, as well as unparalleled poet. Following Clare through this book brings back memories of being young again out exploring the countryside of my native Berkshire.
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As dusk settles on a November evening we wait in expectation. We are about to watch one of autumn’s wildlife wonders. Such displays in the natural world offer healing and peace in our troubled human world.
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Did William Wordsworth ‘wander lonely as a cloud‘ through the Lakeland Fells? Was he the solitary poetic genius writing some of the greatest nature poetry in the English language? His sister Dorothy’s Grasmere Journal reveals a slightly different picture.
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A Listening Heart 