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Plant of the Day
Thursday 25 January 2018

At the start of Holly Walk, originally known as Love Lane, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Ilex aquifolium ‘Silver Milkmaid’ (variegated holly) forms an impressive specimen. The majority of the holly plants here are over a century old and constitute one of the largest collections of these plants. The route of the walk, for much of its length, is a former public lane which separated Richmond Garden, belonging to Queen Caroline, from Kew Garden, the residence of her son, Frederick, Prince of Wales in the 18th century.

Jill Raggett