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KEW GARDENS

Kew
London

"Botanical Garden" has a sound very unattractive, at least to my ears. And in the end a bit 'because of my green thumb a little bit' to inclement weather, for weeks I've blown away the thought of Kew Gardens each time peeping into my mind.

Then I won the inertia, we are gone, and now I can not wait to return. Because Kew is a world apart, which is accessed with a ticket and in which time is counted, but it remains a marvelous parallel world made up of endless gardens with grass so short as thick and soft, and flower beds everywhere.

Kew is a paradise of 121 acres with ponds, swans, squirrels and seven temples in the glass (some people call "glass", but the term is quite simplistic) that reconstruct microclimates suitable to host flower away.

The Temperate House (4.880 square meters.) And 'the largest glass structure has survived from the Victorian period. Iron painted white and glass on two floors, with a raised walkway that allows an unusual view from above. Plants also grow here Dick, from Central (Fuchs and Brugmansia for example), Australia and endangered plants, like Hibiscus iliiflorus from Rodrigues Island and Trochetiopsis erthroxylon from St. Helena, awaiting be reintegrated into their original environment. Temperate House is the pride of Palm Wine , coming from Chile, with its 16mt, is the largest greenhouse-grown plant and it seems to have no intention of stopping!

Another wonder is the Waterlily House, built in 1852 by Richard Turner, contains a large tub of water with different species of water lilies, from the European ones, Monet, to larger ones from Amazonia. These are exceptional, reaching one meter in diameter and are sturdy enough to withstand the weight of a child!.

Kew Botanical Gardens offer visitors a taste of the extraordinary biodiversity that exists in nature in the context of artificial beauty, but never annoying. Each glass, each area of \u200b\u200bthe garden enchants both specialists in the field that families leaving Sunday, indeed seems made just for children called The Evolution of the greenhouse House where, in an environment that is home to plants prehistoric (ferns and horsetails) and 'was added to a volcano that puffs with a lot of dinosaur footprints and wooden huts.

Walking through the gardens of azaleas and roses meet other halls in which there are exhibitions, shows and cultural events. At the end of April ended the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, the first exhibition in the world dedicated exclusively to botanical drawings in which, next to the private collection of Sherwood, was exhibited for the first time the collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Rated as one of the largest in the world of botanical art.


Not to miss: Amorphophallus titanum , herbaceous plant from the island of Sumatra, known to have the largest inflorescence of the plant world. Despite the strong smell of rot that emanates during the few days of flowering, crowds of onlookers flock to Kew to see this phenomenon that occurs only every three to four years.

When
daily
summer
9:30 to 19:30 9:30 to 18:00 Winter

Where
Kew Gardens
London

Admission
adults £ 13
free for youth under 17 accompanied by an adult

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FASCINATION WITH NATURE
British Museum London

Until September 27, 2008

A room of small size and light silks and soft home cards painted by Chinese artists with flowers, insects and birds. Apparently homogeneous and with the same repeating patterns in different situations in their singular uniqueness, each with its own meaning, discovered or hidden. Every flower, every element in the paintings carry a message.

The reason Prince is bamboo, a plant that thrives in China and is traditionally known for its versatility as a building material and its shape, thin and stately. The bamboo and decorations symbolize integrity and honesty - this very large grass bends during storms, but not burst.

From silk scroll Bamboo and Birds , dated 1618-1690, I discovered that painters specializing in high level in China in the painting of two, three subjects, or even one. The inscription on the silk in fact says that the design and 'the work of two masters: Sheng Zhu has painted bamboo, orchids and rocks while the artist called on, the red-headed birds.

The symbolic element in Chinese painting is rooted to the point that some Chinese artists of the twentieth century are tornati ai soggetti tradizionali e alla ricca simbologia che li accompagna, sperimentando tecniche e formati inedite. Ma anche i riferimenti sono stati rinnovati e se in passato i significati nascosti erano benaugurati, nel XX secolo spesso fiori frutti e insetti sottintendevano un messaggio politico.

E così anche innocenti passerotti come quelli di Huang Miazoi, Sparrows in snow , attraverso la poesia che accompagna il quadro, si traducono in un ammonimento socio-politico "il vento cambia spesso il tempo improvvisamente/ma non bisogna preoccuparsi".

Not to miss: Autumn Lotus Pond , Yang Yanping (b. 1934). The flowers are a purple off, stained with black and red iron ore, on a gray background, shyly lilac. The colors are subtle but profound made through a complex technique that sees the color filter from the back of the sheet with paper stretched or wrinkled.

When
Until September 27, 2008

Where
British Museum
London

Admission
Free

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ANGEL ART MARKET
all weekend
Angel - London

discovered a little 'by chance (offered me shelter from the shower out Station Angel) 's Angel Art Market and' market to a weekly recurrence where artists exhibit and several more are selling their works.

Apart from the entrance is under a makeshift tent of plastic, the Angel Art Market looks rustic but comfortable. Under the feet a little polished wooden floors and no furniture around if not the works themselves, piled on stands, hung on walls or on display on shelves precarious. All to the rhythm of the music of distant lands, a little 'samba a bit' Caribbean that heats the atmosphere and brings a ray of sunshine even in bagnatissima London.

The line with the ground-floor, loft upstairs and 'bare and spartan, with a partition a little' false that bisects the room with little conviction and without reaching the ceiling. Clusters of the stands along with colored objects and filling where and 'bare.

All ' Angel Art Market expose themselves to photographers and painters work, prints and jewelry, textiles, glass and ceramics. Last weekend there were the colorful prints Ben Quail , in which images, words and color patches overlapped and juxtaposed. And then Telerie and pillows (both pillows, bed that cushion, sofa) by Julie Kouame, with a taste for the combinations of colors and patterns.

One corner was devoted to necklaces, rings and other delicious trinkets of metal, wood or ceramic. In this section, I also saw the truly eye-catching necklaces made of leather cut into forms cirolari then joined together as to form a medallion. Too bad there were business cards or postcards on the stand that girl blackberry.

then turned the corner, a revelation! ceramics, pillows and fabrics mounted like paintings on wood and suppport on the wall of Nadia Sparham . With prints, applications and finishing done by hand. Small blacks stylized trees next to a black bird on a white ceramic. Cups of coffee 'with the same design of the dish that accompanies them. Mugs simple but not ordinary To invite no more than boiling water and a bag of tea.

The cups I let them, along with pillows and a necklace pink tulip. And I was wrong. But I kept them in touch.

Not to miss: cards too human to human Simon that sting con il sorriso.

Quando
Ogni sabato & domenica da Aprile
orario 11 - 18

Dove
Candid Galleries
Torrens Street
Angel
London EC1V 1NQ

Admission
Free