Kew Royal Botanic Gardens – Katja Malmborg

Kew (iii)

125 The Kew Royal Botanic Gardens are immense. One corner of the garden hosts most of the greenhouses and the meticulously planned thematic gardens. Most of the grounds, though, are made up of an arboretum. When I visited in 2013, it felt like an airy forest with many different kinds of trees, and it wasContinue reading “Kew (iii)”

Kew (ii)

107 The little waterlily greenhouse, one of all the small greenhouses in Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. It is completely taken up of a round pool full of waterlily leaves. It was such a lovely little place during my visit to the garden in 2013, and so warm. London was cold and raw on this particularContinue reading “Kew (ii)”

Kew (i)

70 Kew Royal Botanic Gardens is, according to their own website, the finest botanic garden in the world, old, huge and in 2003 added to the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The garden was first created in 1759 and now covers 121 hectares of land. The greenhouses are magnificent to look at. So classy,Continue reading “Kew (i)”

words of botany (i & ii)

33 & 34 I’ve been trying to figure it out. Where this interest comes from. My obsession with botanic gardens. I’d like to say there’s something profound about it – but maybe it’s just a type of collection. I come from a family of collectors, list-makers and chroniclers. I tick gardens off my list andContinue reading “words of botany (i & ii)”

balcony gardening (ii)

31 From the notebook, late May: “Opening the balcony door this morning, I founda a thin layer of a cream-colored dust on the leaves of the tomato plants. It stuck to my bare feet, felt like flour between my toes. And looking up, at the crown of the pine, my tree friend, eating spot forContinue reading “balcony gardening (ii)”