A Wondering Wander In Ventnor Botanic Gardens

This video details just a small assortment of things that we saw on a recent visit to Ventnor Botanic Gardens on the Isle of Wight - including lizards, cacti, some very interesting flowers, and lots and lots of bees.

[@jackiem437]

That was very interesting indeed. Thank you

[@argusflugmotor7895]

I love slow, calming videos like these.

[@iannonhebel677]

You had a lovely visit and shared it, providing a wealth of information. I get videos from you in my feed and was deleighted to watch this one. It deserves many more views.

[@stevefranpimblett8257]

Oh wow! Just watching this for the first time and I saw the "muskwood" and we have those growing in the bush around here in Tasmania. I didn't expect to see that in the U.K. :)

[@SombreroPharoah]

The Rainforest greenhouse there is what taught me the Amazon climate is not a holiday I would survive... Sadly. Maybe acclimatise like a plant pot and go in and out for a length of time longer each. One day...

[@Nhoj31neirbo47]

I enjoyed visiting part of this wonderful garden and your informative commentary.

[@brianartillery]

I love the Isle Of Wight. Every type of landscape you could wish for in a tiny area, and more history than you can shake a stick at. I really wish that Osborn-Smith's waxworks were still extant in Brading, though.
The odour from the tree is probably the chemical, Coumarin, which is part of the perfume make up of a lot of plants. It can range in smell from lemony, through to fresh hay, up to sickly, and almost fishy. A biology teacher at my secondary school shocked the class I was in to silence, by telling us that the fragrance of Lime and Hawthorn trees resembled that of seminal fluid, and that a French writer had remarked that the perfume of both trees were favoured by 'experienced' women! You don't tend to forget facts when they are told to you like that.

[@sskinblade]

The terrapins live in the bottom pond in V B G all year

[@PandemoniumMeltDown]

Eva does fancy rocks... turtles, I wonder...

[@critterjon4061]

Thought the plant in the thumbnail was weed

[@ThreeBears]

09:37 BIIIIIG YAWN.

[@kopynd1]

amazing place,

[@rockers7889]

Chris Kidd lol ain't telling the truth

[@sskinblade]

what are you saying ?