So we went with Gwilym and Janine to Kew Gardens, we are very fortunate that we live less than 10 minutes walking from the main entrance! The gardens are actually officially called the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. Please click on the link to see more detail about it.
For some time, we had wanted to see the 'Tropical Extravaganza' display there, in the Princess of Wales pavillion. This is an exhibition of orchids, anturiums and a number of other tropical colourful plants.
Here are two examples from a big photoshoot Lyn had!
After seeing the 'inside colours' we went to see what was to be found outside. You may remember that we wrote a post back in autumn with lots of brown, yellow and red colours.
Now there is definitely a hint of spring in the air, especially on a warm, sunny day (17C may not sound warm to our South African readers but it is about 10C warmer than normal at this time of the year!).
Apart from snowdrops, which you would expect, there were quite a lot of crocusses out and even a fair amount of daffodils:
Finally, here is a heron, fishing in the river Thames, near a lock just upstream from Richmond.
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