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  Posted by Papa Nopsis (U14479902) on Saturday, 9th October 2010

  Hello All,
  Over the last three mid-weeks I have familiarised myself with Birmingham city centre and B'ham gardens.
  
  The three main ones I have been to are Castle Bromwich,B'ham botanical garden, and Winterbourne Botanical Garden (University).
  
  By far the most interesting and well organised was the University garden which was amazingly well labelled, discreetly and quietly organised, ad a great pleasure to visit, as gardens should be.
  
  Castle Bromwich was interesting in the effrots being made by amateur tenants to do great things with what is mainly a topiarist's garden, but I half anticipated the inadequacy of the City's own
  garden, which is easily confused with the exceptional Winterbourne.
  
  An attempt to be all things to all rowdy school children by the city authority seems to have succeeded gloriously at the B'ham Municipal garden, with musical concerts and aviaries taking equal precedence in the affections of local members. Some taxonomic labelling has been done.
  
  I was delighted to be approached in the Winterbourne University gardens by a small group of schoolgirls and their mistress who were quite intent on picking my brains, as they perceived them to be, as to what I saw in the gardens.
  
  I was delighted to give them a short lecture on the excellence of the labelling and reminded them if they did not know(!) of the mnemonic of the Kingdoms of knowledge, KPCOFGS, which is probably to, other realms of learning, what a multiplication table up to 12x is to maths.
  
  They listened intently, had excellent manners, knew what they were there for (partly to take photos of the late flowers), but I did not quite remind them to take a picture of the accompanying label of the flower, if possible.
  
  The most important feature of the KPCOFGS, for school children, is the last few ..... Family,Genus Species, sub-species, cultivars hybrids, crosses!
  
  Castle Brom was good but The 'municipal' garden, a
  cross bred disaster, between music, aviaries and plants!

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