I went to Kew gardens a few weeks ago with my friend kim.
I've always wanted to go, cause I heard it was under UNESCO protection (being Japanese, UNESCO protection means everything), and my friends told me it was worth visiting. Also that day our german friend organized a german beer garden night in Richmond, so we decided to go on the same day.
(btw the beer garden served really good german food. but they closed at 6pm, due to security reasons. 6pm... how do they make any profit??? (apparently if we had told them earlier, they would have arranged so we could stay longer, but still...))
anyway, kew gardens was beautiful. The glass houses were warm and tropical, had many different kinds of plants, and I especially liked the water lilies. I also liked the japanese garden. It was Japanese, probably made by a japanese person, but i dunno... it felt western. It didn't have that sort of, wabi sabi feeling to it... maybe it's just me being overprotective of my own culture.
It's a 5 min walk from Kew gardens station on the district and circle line. You can't miss it.
