After school, I went to the royal botanic gardens. The entrance is free but for some special parts of the garden, you have to pay. I only went into the parts that were for free. In the one hour I was in the gardens, I saw merely a third of the botanic garden. To be honest, the price/performance ratio is a lot better in the gardens than in the castle. As on Wednesday, the weather was great again.
In the gardens were beautiful flowers and trees. Parts of the gardens had themes like Nepal or the Chinese Hillside. On 16th October 2017, the UK inaugurated in a part of the garden Nepalese plants to mark the 200-year relationship between Britain and Nepal. The part of the Chinese Hillside is part of a project. They investigate how best to work with local people to develop more sustainable practices. Over half the plants on the Chinese Hillside is used as natural medicines.
The gardens have also been an important centre for the growing and studying rhododendrons for more than 100 years. Now there are 700 out of 1000 rhododendron species represented.