
By setting off early, we were able to take in Birmingham Botanical Gardens in the morning. The site is fairly compact but there is a lot of material in there. As well as the standard fare of botanical gardens, there was an amount of specialization in aviaries containing a variety of birds - peacocks, parrots, several tropical starlings, and so on. Particularly interesting in the plant department was an accidentally crossed tree fern specimen in the sub-tropical section, and the historical gardens, depicting Roman, Mediaeval and Tudor gardens, though this section was small and signposted discreetly.
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