Kensington Roof Gardens Flamingos

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Kensington roof gardens flamingos. 17 thoughts on famous for flamingoes kensington roof gardens. In an unlikely location on top of a department store on kensington high street these tranquil gardens were planted in the 1930s and feature a spanish garden a tudor garden an english woodland garden and even resident flamingos. The roof gardens are both an opulent night faring experience and the perfect place for an afternoon stroll with cocktails. In memory of the ex flamingos of kensington roof gardens which have apparently gone having been thrown off the roof by drunk people flamingos do fly.

Sure they weren t statues of flamingos that were thrown off ah no they were real life ones. They were the resident flamingos at the roof gardens so suspect they d had their wings clipped either that or they really really liked the place and just stayed. Bill ben splosh and pecks kensington roof gardens resident quartet of flamingos are ready for you. The lucky flamingos and ducks including this wood duck that call the kensington roof gardens home have the run of the roost with private ponds streams and grottos to splash in.

The derry gardens as they were originally known were inspired by similar roof gardens at the rockefeller centre in new york and designed and laid out by landscaper ralph hancock. Not to be confused with kensington gardens kensington roof gardens is london s equivalent of the hanging gardens of babylon. Pop of color a single glorious poppy brightens the rooftop. Virgin announced in january that it was closing the.

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