{"id":895,"date":"2017-06-09T12:10:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T17:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/?p=895"},"modified":"2017-06-16T13:49:21","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T18:49:21","slug":"kew-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/2017\/06\/09\/kew-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Kew Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we visited the Royal Botanical Gardens.\u00a0 The garden was huge! It was full of acres upon acres of green lawns and so many different flowers and other plants.\u00a0 While we were there we explored their tropical green house which housed tons of tropical flowers and trees from all over the world.\u00a0 This included places like South America, Africa and Australia.\u00a0 Also while we were there, we checked out a gallery that had hundreds of botanical illustrations.\u00a0 They had illustrations from many well know and respected people such as Joseph Dalton Hooker, Marianne North, and many more. This gallery was awesome to look at because it was a different perspective of the art world where the fields of art and botany were combined into one.\u00a0 Seeing this extension of art into other fields was really interesting to learn about.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-896 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7877-edited-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7877-edited-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7877-edited-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7877-edited-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7877-edited-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7877-edited.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-897 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7880-edited-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7880-edited-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7880-edited-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7880-edited-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7880-edited-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7880-edited.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-898 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7945-edited-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7945-edited-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7945-edited-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7945-edited-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7945-edited-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7945-edited.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-900 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7959-edited-1024x1004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7959-edited-1024x1004.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7959-edited-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7959-edited-768x753.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7959-edited-306x300.jpg 306w, https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7959-edited.jpg 1604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-899 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/77\/2017\/06\/IMG_7957-edited-314x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"305\" height=\"969\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we visited the Royal Botanical Gardens.\u00a0 The garden was huge! It was full of acres upon acres of green lawns and so many different flowers and other plants.\u00a0 While we were there we explored their tropical green house which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/2017\/06\/09\/kew-gardens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":506,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/506"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uml.edu\/london-summer-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}