The revamped glasshouse is set to rival the elegant Palm House Gareth Gardner /KEW
In the world鈥檚 largest Victorian glasshouse, a heavily laden trolley is heading my way, one man pulling from the front, three more聽steadying its load. On board聽is a tree I don鈥檛 recognise. It聽is horizontal, which doesn鈥檛 help,聽but to me it looks a bit like a palm with a Mohican, the stout trunk topped by a mass of long, spiky leaves.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a grass tree from Australia,鈥 says horticulturist Scott Taylor. 鈥淚聽can never spell the name,鈥 he confesses, seeing me poised…
