Kensington Roof Gardens Flamingos

The roof gardens are both an opulent night faring experience and the perfect place for an afternoon stroll with cocktails.

Kensington roof gardens flamingos.

A pair of options await your arrival. 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. 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. This entry was posted in flowers and plants and tagged derry and toms flamingo flowers gardens kensington roof gardens london nature plants spanish garden by fran.

Virgin announced in january that it was closing the. Pop of color a single glorious poppy brightens the rooftop. Sure they weren t statues of flamingos that were thrown off ah no they were real life ones. 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.

Plaque in the garden showing trevor bowen director of barkers of kensington ralph hancock commemorative plaque unveiled by members of the hancock family on 29 january 2012 one of the pink flamingos that live in the gardens. Bookmark the permalink. 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. 17 thoughts on famous for flamingoes kensington roof gardens.

Not to be confused with kensington gardens kensington roof gardens is london s equivalent of the hanging gardens of babylon.