Glasgow III: this time, it’s botanical

A beautiful sunny week (if a chilly easterly breeze) means another trip to Glasgow. This time, since we are well into spring, I thought I would visit somewhere outside and headed to the Glasgow Botanical Gardens.

First of all, I decided to take a trip on the underground/metro/subway. It’s much smaller than London – basically a circle line – but that makes it easier to use. There are only two lines, clockwise and anticlockwise, so difficult to get lost.

Once at Hillhead station,a short walk took me to the Gardens. This must be the best time to visit, with the daffodils in full bloom and blossom on the trees as can be seen by the pictures below.

Inside the greenhouses are hundreds of plants, many of them tropical: tea, coffee, mangoes, bananas. There was one area which held just “deadly” plants – deadly for insects, that is. I took a couple of pictures of a pitcher plant and an attempt at a close-up of a sundew.

After an pleasant time at the Gardens, I made my way back, stopping off at the University where they have some collections; I visited the zoological collection which was small but interesting. Then a walk back to the station, along the famous Sauchihall Street which was nothing special although it did have some buildings with unusual architectural features.

So that was my third trip to Glasgow. There is still so much to see but, with the summer approaching, I will want to explore further afield: Arran, Falkirk, Edinburgh, the Highlands. So Glasgow may be left until the autumn when long explorations are no longer available.