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The nearest weather station for long-term data is at RAF Wyton, 3 mi (5 km) north-east of Huntingdon town centre. More recently Monks Wood, 8 mi (13 km) to the north of Brampton, has also provided data. Typically 43.2 nights of the year report an air frost. [citation needed] The absolute minimum at Wyton was −16.1 °C (3.0 °F) in January 1982.
The River Thames frost fairs [1] were held on the tideway of the River Thames in London, England in some winters, starting at least as early as the late 7th century [2] until the early 19th century. Most were held between the early 17th and early 19th centuries during the period known as the Little Ice Age , when the river froze over most often ...
Adam Frost (born September 1969) [1] is a British garden designer [2] and horticulturist known for his successes at the Chelsea Flower Show and as a presenter on the BBC's Gardeners' World. [ 3 ] Early life
A garden centre (Commonwealth English spelling; U.S. nursery or garden center) is a retail operation that sells plants and related products for the domestic garden as its primary business. It is a development from the concept of the retail plant nursery but with a wider range of outdoor products and on-site facilities.
The museum opened in 1977 as the world's first museum of garden history; the churchyard was re-designed as a garden. [4] The church is the oldest structure in the London Borough of Lambeth, except for the crypt of Lambeth Palace itself, and its burials and monuments are a record of 950 years of a community. But for the Palace, it has perhaps ...
Brunswick Square is a 3-acre (1.2 ha) public garden and ancillary streets along two of its sides in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden. It is overlooked by the School of Pharmacy and the Foundling Museum to the north; the Brunswick Centre to the west; and International Hall (a hall of residence of the University of London ) to the south.
The Barbican Conservatory is the second largest conservatory in London, [2] after the Princess of Wales Conservatory at Kew Gardens. [3] Located at the Barbican Centre, [2] it houses more than 2,000 species of plants and trees, as well as terrapins and koi carp. [4]
The communal garden at the centre of the development is 0.4137 hectares (1.022 acres) in size and was the site of a bowling green and ornamental pond in former pleasure gardens. [ 7 ] [ 2 ] The garden has been opened to the public on 17 occasions as part of the Open Garden Squares Weekend organised by the London Parks & Gardens Trust .