The revamped glasshouse is set to rival the elegant Palm House Gareth Gardner /KEW
In the world’s largest Victorian glasshouse, a heavily laden trolley is heading my way, one man pulling from the front, three more steadying its load. On board is a tree I don’t recognise. It is horizontal, which doesn’t help, but to me it looks a bit like a palm with a Mohican, the stout trunk topped by a mass of long, spiky leaves.
“It’s a grass tree from Australia,” says horticulturist Scott Taylor. “I can never spell the name,” he confesses, seeing me poised…
