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  • Seven wonders of London: Kew Gardens

  • By Time Out editors

    Posted: Tue Nov 13 2007

  • Part Crystal Palace, part national park, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew offers brilliant Victorian engineering and flora dating back to the 1700s. Photographer Joanna Jackson spent a year documenting the changing seasons in a fascinating world of glass houses, hidden clearings, exotic beds and towering trees. Here we showcase some of the spectacular results from her new book

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    The magnificent Palm House, built in the 1840s, viewed through autumn foliage

     

    'A year in the Life of Kew Gardens' by Joanna Jackson is available now, published by Frances Lincoln, £14.99.

     

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    • Cherry blossom, flourishing in the spring sunshine The pagoda, seen from the Cedar Vista The waterfall in the Rockery by the Davies Alpine House

2 comments

  1. Posted by thomas on 20 Nov 2008 09:08

    the flowers in one of the pictures are magnolias and not cherries.

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  2. Posted by Chlorine Adolfo on 12 Dec 2007 13:28

    Huzzah to Joanna for her new view of the Kew! Beautiful photos and can't wait to see in real life.

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