... main road. A couple of pairs of cottages were already built at the top of Kew Place by then, along with a couple of courtyards, plus what looks like a cottage at the junction with Bath Road, ... reached through a passageway. It was this passageway and the houses behind it which were originally named Kew Place. The passageway still exists but the housing has probably since been cleared. Clare Place ( ...

A short walk along the Thames from my flat one comes to Kew Bridge, designed by John Wolfe-Barry and opened in 1903. The bridge was given Grade II listed structure protection in 1983. Kew Bridge crosses the River Thames between Kew Green in ... bank. It is immediately adjacent to the Royal Botanic Gardens on the Kew side of the river and the former Grand Junction Waterworks Company buildings, now ...

... redeem myself as an overzealous photographing maniac. Ty's new favorite word is cool. Or kew, as he pronounces it. He'll build something with blocks, then admire his work and remark, "kew ... see an airplane flying low in our neighborhood and matter of factly proclaim, "kew!" I love that he says it with bravado, as if each incidence that elicits the word from his mouth was ...

... Kerley of a selection of Heather Angel's shots of wildlife in Kew Gardens, taken over a year. Her softback book Wild Kew was published today by Kew Publishing, price £9 (CLICK). Watch out for a heron perched on the top of Hercules Fighting Achelus, the ... of France in 1822 and stands in the Louvre Museum, Paris. Bosio's version for Kew Gardens was installed in 1853.

I went to Kew Gardens with the Culpeper group recently. Everything looks splendid in all its Autumn glory. We spent some time in the glasshouses enjoying the lush tropical plants some of them resembling baubles and the ... well as some uplifting colour and spiky cacti as well as ultra-delicate flowers and plants with mad aerial roots – which I always like best! Love Kew Love Life XXX

Nigel Maxted has just sent a brief personal take on the recent Kew 250th anniversary celebrations to the Crop Wild Relatives discussion group. Here’s a snippet: Personally I felt the audience was very receptive to the use and need for CWR conservation, but in my view far too many talks outside of the Plant conservation and agriculture session still failed to make the link between ...