Gardens

On Sunday, Tim and I took a train out of town and walked through green woodland to visit an old semaphore tower. We could only see it from the outside as it was closed, but we had a back-up plan, and spent a pleasant afternoon wandering around the Royal Horticultural Society's gardens at Wisley. They had a great vegetable patch and herb garden. By the time we made it back to the train, we had walked 22 chocometres (one kilometre measured by GPS and a square of Green and Black's), including having to run the last kilometre to catch the train. We only just made it on time.

Yesterday, we went to Kew. They had very impressive greenhouses of palms and banana trees. I liked their treetop walkway among chestnuts and horse chestnuts, which swayed in the breeze slightly alarmingly, and the single huge, pale, luminous lotus flower. There was just a splash or two of sunshine, and it was lovely to stroll around the wooded grounds as the trees were just starting to turn brown.