{"id":5007,"date":"2011-09-02T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2011-09-02T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-02T14:24:53","slug":"a-photo-tour-of-kew-gardens-london-part-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-photo-tour-of-kew-gardens-london-part-two\/","title":{"rendered":"A photo tour of Kew Gardens, London (part two)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"top\"><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-27.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, England, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continuing the photo tour of Kew Gardens, here&#8217;s a view of the striking\u00a0Sackler Crossing bridge.<\/p>\n<p>Made from granite and bronze and opened in May 2006, the bridge won a special award from the\u00a0Royal Institute of British Architects\u00a0in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-28.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, England, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lost shoe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-29.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Prehistoric&#8217; landscape.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-30.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Commissioned in 1859 and designed by architect\u00a0Decimus Burton\u00a0and ironfounder\u00a0Richard Turner, the Temperate House covers\u00a04880 square metres and rises to a height of 19 metres.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/images\/topbx.gif\" alt=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-31.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"385\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like\u00a0father, like son.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-32.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"388\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-33.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-34.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"395\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Checking out the fish.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-35.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/images\/topbx.gif\" alt=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-36.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I liked these dumpling-style hedges!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-37.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-38.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photographing the\u00a0photograph.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-39.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There was a sustainability fair going on when we visited.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-40.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/images\/topbx.gif\" alt=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-41.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was a little too &#8216;corporate branded&#8217; for my liking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-42.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-43.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-44.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The smallest of the\u00a0British royal palaces,\u00a0Kew Palace was built by Samuel Fortrey around 1631 and\u00a0later purchased by George\u00a0III.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-45.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hide and seek.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/images\/topbx.gif\" alt=\"top\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-46.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Planted around 1760, this Japanese Pagoda tree is one of the few remaining trees from the original nine acre botanic garden on the site.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-47.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The strikingly modern lines of the\u00a0Princess of Wales\u00a0Conservatory, designed by architect Gordon Wilson and opened in 1987<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-48.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-49.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-50.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/images\/topbx.gif\" alt=\"top\" width=\"19\" height=\"28\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-51.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-52.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-55.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Opened in 2006, the latest Alpine House has a roof that extends to a height of 10 metres.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-53.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-54.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/kew-gardens-london-56.jpg\" alt=\"Photos of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Gardens, west London, August 2011, August 2011\" width=\"580\" height=\"384\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A last view of the Palm House.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"a-photo-tour-of-kew-gardens-london-part-one\">Click here for part one of the Kew gardens photo tour<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kew.org\/visit-kew-gardens\/garden-attractions-A-Z\/Xstrata-Treetop-Walkway.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kew website<\/a>] &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0[Camera used:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wirefresh.com\/nikon-d5100-dslr-reviews-the-camera-looks-an-absolute-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nikon D5100<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the photo tour of Kew Gardens, here&#8217;s a view of the striking\u00a0Sackler Crossing bridge. 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