Walking around most countries a free pleasure is admiring gardens. International attention has been drawn to the wisteria covering a house in England. It takes two days a year to prune.
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If you are able and willing to pay and travel, the well known gardens are Kew Gardens in south London. But if you want a free pleasure, in England in London suburbs and other cities you can admire trees and flowers. In spring London suburbs have cherry blossom trees.
In springtime, as Wordsworth described, public areas, especially woods have flowers such as Daffodils. The many front gardens have daffodils growing gaily.
Most councils plants bulbs along the public roads. A competition Britain in Bloom encourages displays in public places and many areas have competitions for the best front garden.
Many garden centres in the UK have cafes. The plant labels are an education for children and adults.
USA Trees For Free
In the USA in Washington DC you can see the pink blossoms on cherry blossom trees donated by the Japanese after World War II as a peace offering. In autumn, called Fall in America, we used to drive along the East coast admiring the leaves changing colour, reds, greens, browns, yellows.
On the west coast travellers drivers and walkers and hikers admire the giant trunks of the sequoia trees.
Singapore - Palm Trees and Gardens For Free
In Singapore the drive from the airport passes between avenues of magnificent canopy trees. Palm trees come in many shapes and sizes. A source of joy in grand parks and botanical gardens in Asia is the banyan trees with numerous trunks.
In Singapore you can visit the Gardens By The Bay and read about the uses of the trees. The Gardens by the Bay are in an air conditioned glass sided giant attraction. One of the two main attractions has sculptures. The other has a giant waterfall which you can view from walkways at ground level and at the top and midpoints.
But if you are happy to walk around in the heat, carrying your own water bottle, you can happily spend an hour or two outside the attraction seeing similar trees. Plaques outside like the ones indoors give the tree names and usual locations in the world and uses or history or how they are featured in literature and myths. The outside area along the riverside is free.
Previous posts on this travel blog show palm trees and Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.
Angela Lansbury B A Hons Travel Writer and photographer, author, speaker. Please read more on Facebook and like my page, link to me on LinkedIn, enjoy watching me reading comic poetry on YouTube and read about my books and buy them on Lulu.com
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3113040/From-just-one-tiny-vine-mass-wisteria-Couple-s-cottage-covered-glorious-climbing-plant-grown-250ft-planted-43-years-ago.html
If you are able and willing to pay and travel, the well known gardens are Kew Gardens in south London. But if you want a free pleasure, in England in London suburbs and other cities you can admire trees and flowers. In spring London suburbs have cherry blossom trees.
In springtime, as Wordsworth described, public areas, especially woods have flowers such as Daffodils. The many front gardens have daffodils growing gaily.
Most councils plants bulbs along the public roads. A competition Britain in Bloom encourages displays in public places and many areas have competitions for the best front garden.
Many garden centres in the UK have cafes. The plant labels are an education for children and adults.
Wisteria on a house in Hatch End, Pinner, London, England.
USA Trees For Free
In the USA in Washington DC you can see the pink blossoms on cherry blossom trees donated by the Japanese after World War II as a peace offering. In autumn, called Fall in America, we used to drive along the East coast admiring the leaves changing colour, reds, greens, browns, yellows.
On the west coast travellers drivers and walkers and hikers admire the giant trunks of the sequoia trees.
Singapore - Palm Trees and Gardens For Free
In Singapore the drive from the airport passes between avenues of magnificent canopy trees. Palm trees come in many shapes and sizes. A source of joy in grand parks and botanical gardens in Asia is the banyan trees with numerous trunks.
In Singapore you can visit the Gardens By The Bay and read about the uses of the trees. The Gardens by the Bay are in an air conditioned glass sided giant attraction. One of the two main attractions has sculptures. The other has a giant waterfall which you can view from walkways at ground level and at the top and midpoints.
Photo by Trevor Sharot
Singapore has many kinds of palms, such as coconut palms. You can also see mango trees on the East Coast road in the Bedok area. When I was in Singapore in May this year mangoes had fallen on the paths in the street below my feet.
But if you are happy to walk around in the heat, carrying your own water bottle, you can happily spend an hour or two outside the attraction seeing similar trees. Plaques outside like the ones indoors give the tree names and usual locations in the world and uses or history or how they are featured in literature and myths. The outside area along the riverside is free.
Previous posts on this travel blog show palm trees and Gardens by the Bay in Singapore.
Angela Lansbury B A Hons Travel Writer and photographer, author, speaker. Please read more on Facebook and like my page, link to me on LinkedIn, enjoy watching me reading comic poetry on YouTube and read about my books and buy them on Lulu.com
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