On Fiday, we took a field trip to Kew Gardens. Originally the exotic garden at Kew Park formed by Lord Capel, Kew Gardens was enlarged and extended by Augusta, the Dowager princess of Wales. Augusta was the widow of Prince Fredrick, for whom Sir William Chambers built several garden structures. One of these, the Chinese Pagoda (c. 1761) still remains. George III and some other aristocratic gentlemen enriched the gardens later on, in 1840 the grounds were adopted as the national botanical gardens.
Treetop view!
Above: Kathryn and I being normal in the gardens.
Below: David and Joel being weird in the gardens.
2 comments:
Okay - the 4th graders want to know where you were when you took the tree-top picture. Do you know what kind of flower the pink and white flower is and did you get to go up in the Chinese Pagoda? How tall is it?
Luv ya,
Mum
I didn't go up the Pagoda, but it is 163 feet tall! I have no idea what any of the flowers were, they weren't labeled, they were just pretty. Your guess is as good as mine, but if you happen to find out I would love to know!
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