The outcome of the car park business was, we were told, that there are car parking charges for those who do not have season tickets. Lots more income and lots fewer people seems to be the outcome, which means that it is even easier to leave the crowds behind than it was. But given the preoccupation with and competitiveness about footfall these days, is it the result that they wanted?
Autumn cyclamen were out.
Autumn fungi were out, but with this prize specimen not being treated with the respect it deserved.
There were a number of tastefully constructed play areas and play objects for children, with some of them being grown rather than constructed. There was also the big summer adventure which involved children being issued with a leaflet with spaces for them to collect stamps, the boxes containing which were scattered around the place and which had to be found. Children of the right sort of age seem to find this sort of thing fascinating, and it certainly keeps them going while the adults stroll around the place. A good wheeze.
We forgot to look for the cedrus atlantica glauca pendula (or was it the cedrus atlantica pendula) until it was too late, so we shall have to be satisfied with the Hook Road specimen for the time being. It is getting slowly bigger and is sometimes called an Atlas cedar as a result of the tree being found native in the Atlas mountains. And it was not as if there were not plenty of other trees of interest at Wakehurst.
All in all a mystery why we do not visit the place more often. Less than an hour away. There is the risk of getting caught up in something on the M25/M23 - as we were on this occasion - but I don't think that this is the problem. Perhaps we have just got too much other stuff to do a bit nearer.
Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/wakehurst.html.
Reference 2: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=atlas+cedar.
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