Jan 22
![Atrichum undulatum [CC-BY-SA-4.0 Steve Cook]](https://www.polypompholyx.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Atrichum_undulatum-300x297.jpg)
When we went to the Berlin Botanischer Garten in 2005, we saw some pretty cool stuff, including a flowering Welwitschia and some fantastic tree ferns. However, like every other botanical garden I’ve ever visited, mosses , hornworts and liverworts were effectively ignored, or – worse – treated as dreary also-rans at the start of one …
Apr 23
![Amsterdam botanical gardens [CC-BY-2.0 Alex Lomas]](https://www.polypompholyx.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/amsterdam_botanical_gardens-273x300.jpg)
I’m not sure whether bagging botanical gardens is better or worse than bagging Munros, Michelin stars or the numbers off of rolling stock, but it keeps me off the streets… London (Kew) Just ten stops down the District Line from $WORK lies the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. The gardens have three enormous glasshouses, a number …