In Yorkshire we are lucky to have several gardens designed using the theme of a Himalayan Garden. The Hut near Ripon at Grewlthorpe is  ‘The Himalayan Garden’ with all the plants you would expect in such a setting including
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Botany is the science of plant life. In other descriptions it is the study of plant science or plant biology. A botanist is one who studies botany.
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“Botanic gardens are institutions holding documented collections of living plants for the purposes of scientific research, conservation, display and education.”
Oxford Botanic Gardens and Magdalen College Tower.
This garden, the oldest in the UK was founded in 1621 as a physic garden growing plants for medicinal research
The original Cambridge University Botanic Garden (CUBG) was founded in 1762 with the larger site opening in 1846. It provides inspiration for botanists, gardeners and the public with an array of 8000 plant species. As a university garden it has a resources for research and teaching based on a collection of living plants labelled with their botanical names. CUBG is one of 1600 heritage-listed gardens which are based on ‘designed’ landscapes, rather than on planting or botanical importance.
Chelsea Physic Garden was established as the Apothecaries’ Garden in 1673
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Durham University Botanic Garden plus other University led botanic gardens at Leicester and Bristol
Ness Botanic Gardens
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
Sheffield Botanic Garden has been restored with different garden areas with plants from all over the world, this 19-acre Gardenesque-style botanical garden is a diverse one to visit. As with other good botanic gardens it holds National Plant Collections in Sheffields case Weigela, Diervilla and Sarcococca.
National Botanic Garden of Wales
Belfast College Park, Botanic Avenue
Jardim Botânico, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil contains exotic plants in a
In Yorkshire we are lucky to have several gardens designed using the theme of a Himalayan Garden. The Hut near Ripon at Grewlthorpe is  ‘The Himalayan Garden’ with all the plants you would expect in such a setting including
New Trees: Recent Introductions to Cultivation by John Grimshaw, Ross Bayton and illustrated by Hazel Wilks. Amazon
I am going to Madeira for a sunny break before the gardening gets tougher. I hope to sample the orchids that grow on the islands and even bring home the occasional example.
Conker collecting has encouraged many a stick to be thrown into a Horse Chestnut tree. The candle or flower heads are even more spectacular than the crop of conkers that they give birth too.
Most Bromeliad of the thousands of species are tropical plants. In the UK they make good house plants and pot plants for a conservatory. Others plants in the same family are the genus including Aechmea, Neoregelia, Vriesea and Guzmania
The British have a fascination with trees be they humble or ‘Remarkable’,’Ancient’ or saplings, ‘Great’ or just plain good.
The Lime is a tall growing well shaped tree which is often grown along avenues and public places in the UK. The flowers have an exquisite fragrance.
A water loving tree that is comparatively short lived at about 150 years. It is fast growing and can often be found near river banks.
Ulex europaeus better known as Gorse, furze, furse or whin is a very prickly shrub of the pea family. Western gorse Ulex gallii is frequent in the western side of Britain and is relatively low growing yet robust. Dwarf gorse or Ulex minor is a low growing, sprawling shrub.
After salad crop failures in Spain and shortages of courgettes, broccoli and other ‘long distance’ vegetables gardeners could to worse than focus on traditional and non-traditional root crops.
Common Ash trees row widely in the UK and other Ashes grow in Asia and America. Our Ash has dark almost black buds and some species have interesting flowers but it is as a tree the provided wood to make bows that the Ash is best known in Britain.