Tropical Extravaganza at Kew Gardens

During the Focus week the most important visit was at Kew Gardens for the Tropical Extravaganza festival. The first stop was at Princess of Wales conservatory to see orchids and tropical plants with their amazing diversity of colours, shapes and spectacular forms.

The journey carried on at Waterlily house display where the usual waterlilies have been replaced with stunning pond display of Cymbidium orchids. Also i couldn't resist to go around the gardens,

I was impressed with the river of crocus spp (bulbs) with their beautifully colours on the lawn areas. It was a great day with the sunshine following us everywhere around the gardens.

Two days Thames tour

This section shows the main features of the Gross Max design and the changes in levels in South Bank area. Top right its the map that shows where this section is taken from and bottom right its the design of South Bank Centre that indicates the exact place of the section.


First day was quite windy and a bit cold, however we were lucky with no rains during the long walking day, worth it...Starting with the famous South Bank, the landscape designed by Gross Max, London Eye and the most surprising and enjoyable was to visit Bonnington Square pleasure gardens and & paradise project. That's where we eat our healthy vegetarian launch and looked at the amazing gardens designed in 1990 by TV gardening Dan Pearsons and New Zealand garden designer James Frazer.
I loved the exotic planting and the design overall. I have been living in London for 6 years and i didnt know how many places and squares are hidden between buildings and streets.

Second day started with the Thames tour from Embankment to Canary Wharf, looking at the landscape and architecture around Thames. Arriving at cold streets and 'artificial landscape' of Canary Wharf. the best thing was to visit More London and Potters Fields, both amazing and well designed landscape...

My choosen practice

Barbican to Old Street walk

This was one of my best walks in London. It is amazing the diversity of this city and how new things you can see here everyday. We saw some contemporary Landscape projects, walked through Brick Lane and visited a animal care park. Also i climbed 311 steps of the Monument to see same great wiews of the river and sorrounding landscape.

Kew Gardens visit

The visit was in December 2008. I think that was the coldest day of the year. Everyone was freezing, however was a good experience to see Kew Gardens during winter time. I really like to see gardens and their changes during the year.

Those photos are taken by me with froozen fingers and using a mobile phone. what do you think about them?

Paddington to Hyde Park Walk

That was a good experience to reveal a great experience of contemporary landscpe during our jurney. The weather wasn't too bad, comapring to a tipicall London winter day. I really enjoyed this walk.



The following are some pfotos taken by me during this walk.