Today's sunshine drew out an audience for the newly blossoming Magnolia Trees

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Here are a few more pictures of the blossom in the Gardens today and a Panorama of the currently dormant Rose Garden with the Japanese Cherry blossom just about at its peak round the perimeter

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(I wonder how old the one is at Kew? Must be pretty ancient, I imagine).

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Without these introductions, British gardens would be dull places if we stuck to only those species that arrived by themselves after the last ice age. But please, no naturalising hybrid daffs and so on in the countryside. I can almost accept, and well I do, snowdrops.

This was the scene yesterday in the April sunshine