EXPLORE BUSH PARK WITH ME / EMMA'S ALLOTMENT DIARIES

good morning guys welcome back to my YouTube channel so I'm going to try this vlogging out and about thing again today I'm going to take you somewhere and show you around it's one of my favorite places to go especially when the weather is so nice and that is Bushy Park and Bushy Park is located in Kingston upon 10 and it is actually a royal park but I think it's one of those parks that's quite often overlooked and I think it's about time it got the credit that it really does deserve so Bushy Park is actually a royal park it was actually part of Hampton Court Palace which is obviously where famously Henry VIII lived and it was his hunting ground and even today there are still lots and lots of deer in Bushy Park so if you do enjoy this kind of video from me let me know in the comments below leave me a like and if you love my channel subscribe to my YouTube channel and without further ado let's go for a little walk around Bushy Park right so just arrived and um we're in one of the car parks and there are two sections in Bushy Park where basically dogs are not allowed and it's all sort of enclosed and that's where we're going to go first so you can kind of walk through them there's no dogs there's no cycling allowed there's no scooters or anything and it's all planted up really beautifully so that's where we're going to head first and I will show you around so currently walking through the woodland walk um there is a coffee shop at the beginning very expensive as you can imagine it is a royal park like I said next to that there is a huge cafe where you can get proper meals lunch um lots of people gather around there and stuff so it's usually very very busy you can also get ice creams there and just little snacks and stuff this place here is absolutely gorgeous as you can see it's beautifully planted up no dogs no cyclists so you can kind of walk around quite freely if you know what I mean without worries of being hit by a bike or having to move out the way for a dog and um yeah it is stunning so spring is kind of coming to a close now usually behind these daffodils all those trees are kind of blossomed but they've sort of finished but look how gorgeous these daffodils are aren't they beautiful such such a gorgeous color and they're kind of planted in clumps all around the woodland walk which is just beautiful i mean I love them look at them i think these are all irises all around this pond here that is going to look so beautiful when they all flower and then what are these yellow flowers i actually don't know what they are but I really want them for my pond on the a lotment plot they are stunning and they are just all out in full bloom aren't they gorgeous and I know I am aware that I say stunning quite a lot someone picked it up in my last video but these irises I am super excited to see flower i've definitely got to come back for them and then look at the willow tree i do have a bit of a thing for willow trees i think they are just beautiful trees i mean look at that and to think that this park is free um so you don't have to pay to come here you don't even have to pay for parking it's completely free um and it's just I mean look at it i'm going to say it again it's stunning here we go here's our first little friend that we've met now you're not actually not allowed to feed the squirrels it's on the sign as you go in and I think it's because if you feed the squirrels they will become ravenous little beasts who will attack everybody with a picnic so obviously throughout the season there will be more and more plants to see around here and that's the one of the things that I love so much about this park is that all the planting is so carefully done and it really does change with every season so there's always something to see here you don't normally see it this nice in the springtime we don't normally have this nice weather so it's a real treat to see all the spring planting in this kind of weather it just makes it look so much nicer right I found a really exciting plant here look at the size of these flowers um let me put it in perspective that is my hand that is beautiful look how huge it is what is this then my first thought was this is this a peony but I don't think it is it's not the time of year for them how gorgeous are these i really shouldn't be touching them but I can't resist oh I think I can spot a bigger bush of them over here let's go and have a little investigation are they Aelas maybe it's Aelas i know these are different it's a very similar pink but these are Aelas for sure because they got multif flowers i know Aelas this park is actually really well known for all of its Aelas and um when they all start to bloom which they are starting to now they are like no other display you've ever seen it is just beautiful you might be able to see all the Aelia bushes just around here and they're all different colors and when they're all completely in flower honestly there's nothing like it remember when I was younger and I used to come to the the park and people used to sit here and paint them cuz they are that beautiful so we got some nice white ones over here sort of pale pink and white and just every single color i mean this one over here you can see that hasn't even opened yet such gorgeous flowers and one of my favorite flowers I think um because when they all just flower like this I mean look at this just one bush imagine having that in your garden oh my goodness me and then look at the pink in the background going to say it again guys stunning there's no other word to describe it oh look i've spied a purple one a purple one sitting here i think this is an Aelia as well i've never seen a purple one like that that is gorgeous got the magnolia trees here just starting to open up and flower um maybe give it a week maybe two weeks and this will look absolutely stunning or are they finished am I completely talking rubbish maybe they've already flowered and they finished now it feels like they're going to flower it feels like it actually let me know in the comments guys are this is this already flowered or is this about to right so we're coming out of the woodland garden now thank you very much Dave as you can see the gates close and this is to keep the deer out I believe um let the deer out yeah keep the deer out Dave don't let them in so then we go across this bit here and you can see it sort of opens up into Bushy Park you can have all the doggies and all the deer can run around i don't think the deer come over here um certainly not over here today but then if you keep walking there's another gated section over here with another sort of garden area and that's where we're heading into now right into the next section over the river right this is I cannot tell you how beautiful all this planting is when it gets going and it comes into its own there are so many plants here you wouldn't even be able to see the dirt in between the dirt the soil right you're about to see my favorite plant in the whole of Bushy Park and it's these but I actually don't know what they're called um and it wouldn't be my vlog if I knew what they were called would it these my kids call them Jurassic Park plants because the leaves grow so big it's almost like you feel like you're walking in dinosaur time and I'm pretty sure they are from the dinosaur time um if you know what they're called leave me a comment below but they get massive i mean they're already really big that's my hand in comparison but they get a lot bigger than this and they kind of can pay you as you walk but look how many there are you can imagine the effect that this has in fact maybe I will come back and show you at some point but um yeah let me know what they're called but these are my favorite when they get really big such interesting plants as well look at these is this the flower from them that is really unusual isn't it oh god I love them just not hugely practical to have in your back garden I suppose cuz they do get like I said huge like literally over your head also I am alternating between my phone and this camera cuz I know that my phone is a lot more steady than my camera so let me know if that works for you um and I hope it's not too jarring look at this gorgeous little pond i think I don't think that's duckweed over the top i think that's actually pondweed um I could be wrong but it looks very very strange doesn't it over the top and actually it's so dense that the trees are getting like it's causing shadows in the trees which makes it look very strange and eerie actually um kind of beautiful but bit odd and that is basically the kind of analysis you're going to get on this vlog from me of these places cuz I don't really know anything about it all I can tell you is that that is very beautiful but it's very odd i can only apologize for all of the airplanes when they pass over it's very peaceful here but when they go over they are very very noisy you could just hear so many different birds and also does anybody else walk through trees with their head just look like looking up like this if you don't I urge you to do it honestly it's a whole new perspective on the world um but often when I've been out on walks like this I find my neck is hurting cuz I've just been walking like this just something about looking up ah just give it a go trust me there's one of my little friends one of my little friends come see me guys this park is so big there's no way I'm going to be able to show you around the whole thing today but what I am going to do is take us out of the woodland gardens and into more of like Bushy Park so the open park area which is where you've got the dogs and the cyclists and hopefully the deer that I don't know if the deer will be about at this time of year but we will have a good look for them and um yeah you'll be able to see why it was Henry VI's hunting ground because it is huge and you can just as you're walking around it those crows are following me they followed me from the a lotment they followed me here yeah you can almost imagine Henry VII riding about hunting for deer around here right here we are see all those trees in a nice long row like that isn't that absolutely incredible you can see how formal all the trees are all the planting is around here and look what's around them little cages look it's followed me here as well why do you keep following me what do you want where were we before we were very rudely interrupted by the crows that are quite literally following me guys what is happening today anyway got these huge metal cages around the trees and it's to stop the deer from rubbing up against them they rub up against them with their antlers and they ruin the tree so that's why all the trees are in little cages except these ones which they clearly do not care about so apparently these ones are not that looks flat to me what's going on with this tree oh it's a hollow tree okay so maybe these trees are um unfortunately dying oh that's such a shame so perhaps that's why they've uh that's why they've taken the cages off of these still it's very impressive isn't it all the trees in a row like that isn't that just so like regal i wonder if they were planted in the time of Henry VII and they've just literally taken this long to grow i bet they were you know I think probably it was commissioned by Henry VIII i'm just guessing that's not a fact at all but um I think it should be there we go there's a couple of the deer aren't they beautiful creatures guys I've just heard a woodpecker i don't know if it's going to pick up on camera did you hear that i'm going to look and I'm going to look back when I'm editing and see if you could hear that that but that was a woodpecker gosh there's so many different birds here i've seen parakeetses crows heard a woodpecker and a ton of birds that I have absolutely no idea what the name of them are oh this is nice this is a nice little idea so I think and I might be wrong but I think they're trying to make a dead hedge here so what you do is you put in some sort of stakes like this some sticks and then any dead wood material you kind of put in between and it makes a bit of a dead hedge and it's great for insects and nesting birds and things but it's a great thing to do with sort of if you're chopping a lot of wood down a lot of trees down and it looks like that's what they're trying to do here which I think will look so much prettier than just the metal gates here look it's all my mates again all my mates have turned up why do they keep following me excuse me sir why are you following me so we've walked to the other side of Bushy Park now and um there's a beautiful lake here and this is by the second car park which is just behind me over there and this is basically a huge lake that you can walk around and it's absolutely stunning it's full of ducks there's also more deer around here um I think they're all sheltering under a tree just over there um but you're not allowed to feed them obviously and I don't really want to get too close to them if I'm honest they are huge there they are all sheltering under the tree just over there what are we going over are we actually going to go over gosh no stampede right this is about as close as I feel comfortable getting and the camera is zoomed in they're all sitting under the shade they're all hot and they're all taking a little rest under the shade of the tree right so we've been here for quite a few hours now we've had many an ice cream and an iced coffee and we're going to head on home i hope you've enjoyed my little vlog showing you around Bishu Park one of my favorite royal parks of London let me know if you like this kind of vlog if you do I will do some more of them leave me a comment below let me know what you think uh give me a like and subscribe to my channel and I will see you again back at the a lotment plot on Monday guys thank you so much for watching see you next time bye