The revamped glasshouse is set to rival the elegant Palm House Gareth Gardner /KEW
In the worldās largest Victorian glasshouse, a heavily laden trolley is heading my way, one man pulling from the front, three moreĀ steadying its load. On boardĀ is a tree I donāt recognise. ItĀ is horizontal, which doesnāt help,Ā but to me it looks a bit like a palm with a Mohican, the stout trunk topped by a mass of long, spiky leaves.
āItās a grass tree from Australia,ā says horticulturist Scott Taylor. āIĀ can never spell the name,ā he confesses, seeing me poised…
