Roy and I have been to Kew Gardens every week this spring. I am learning to run, and it’s a lovely place to jog, through the azalea and camellia and rhododendron, and fields of bluebells and crocus and fritillary. Our walks are usually 4 miles, but you just don’t realize how far you have done in this constantly changing panorama. Heaven, I believe, will have a little area reserved for Kew Gardens.
The rest of this blog and the images are from Roy.
Kew Gardens is a wonderful place to visit on good day. (Even on a rainy day, there are the glass houses.) Here are few pictures from several visits this spring.

Snake’s head fritillary, Kew Gardens.

Some of the 30,000 fritillaries planted at Kew.

The square patches of color looking like scales and shape give the flower its name.
The Lucombe Oak, created by William Lucombe, is a cross between the Turkey Oak and the Cork Oak. It is a very vigorous cultivar and so highly prized. This tree was planted 20 meters away in 1773, then at the age of 73, it was transplanted to its present location. (One of Kew’s botanical listed attractions.)

A huge chestnut.

One of the hundreds of naturalised crocuses at Kew.

Scilla (or are they Chionodoxa?)

Temple of Aeolus on top of a daffodil covered hill in the Woodland Garden, Kew Gardens.

Kew has ponds and grassy areas that are welcoming to birds.

Cornelia Cherry (Cornus Mas)

Canada goose — usually seen on land.

A gathering of waterbirds. (The lady feeding them is off to the left.)
The wooded areas of Kew have some wonderful wild flowers and naturalised bulbs.

A massive drift of crocuses. (Kew Gardens)

A mix of blue flowers and Queen Anne’s lace growing under a variety of species of oak.

Queen Anne’s lace under a golden oak.
The azalea and rhododendron walk has some huge rhododendrons completely covered in flower, as well as smaller specimens where you can appreciate the individual flowers.
We weren’t the only ones going out for a walk in the lovely spring weather.