Gardening Kew in Spring 18 March 2022 Ian Alexander Witch Hazel, Hamamelis Golden Lotus Banana, a relative of the edible banana plant, and enough like a sacred lotus for it to be also sacred in (Chinese) Buddhism Kew’s Avenue with flowering cherry sentinels A Strelitzia in the Temperate House People were buzzing around Kew’s Magnolia Grove like entranced bees drunk on nectar. They just couldn’t leave.