Red Clay Colours to see on holiday - not only London and Singapore, but especially Australia's the stunning red sand gardens

Pictures from Wikimedia Commons. 

Other pictures are in Flickr and Facebook.

 I love colour. Doesn't everybody? Unless they are colour blind.

One of the joys of travel is seeing colours. Here are some of the best, by location and time of years.

My favourite colour is red.

AUSTRALIA - red sand earth

I read about the red sands in Cranburne, near Melbourne. I am British, not Australian, so I had to look up which Australian state Melbourne is in to find it on the internet. Then I remember that Melbourne was a minister of Queen Victoria. So Melbourne is in Victoria state.

UK - red brick

Where else can you see red earth? London has red clay made into red bricks. Hence the redbrick universities of England. They are in regional towns or cities with red bricks. As opposed to the grey stone blocks of illustrious Oxford and Cambridge. So the term redbrick university has come to mean slightly second rate. 

SINGAPORE's red earth

Singapore also has red soil. It enhances the greenery which grows prolifically in the tropics, especially in the rainy springtime afternoons. But the bright pinks and oranges and red of the flowers and flowering trees distract attention away from the earth. I notice the red earth most when it scatters across the path leading down to the railway station, at Cashew MRT.

But Australia's Botanic Gardens have the most carefully cultivated contrast of red soil and green plants shaped into circles to create a pattern which looks stunning when photographed from overhead in the air by a drone.   

Red Sand Gardens, Australia

The Royal Botanic Gardens are in Cranbourne, south of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 

If you look up Royal Botanical Gardens, you will find that Kew in London, another in Scotland, bear the same name. So does Australia's Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney.

Useful Websites

https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/cranbourne-gardens/

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