A freezing February morning among the snowdrops of Hyde Park and the Serpentine, plus where else to find London's first flowers of the year.

Christmas eve is sublimely magical in London. Although it rained a lot on Christmas Eve 2021, the warm-ish weather (as in"not freezing") and the reflections of the dazzling festive lights made our traditional Christmas ever stroll around central London a superb, visually-enchanting adventure. Recommended Christmas lights route: the Strand (start in Trafalgar Square/Charing Cross Station, then walk towards Covent Garden, Leicester Square, China Town, and end at Picadilly Circu

Where to see autumn colour in London, park by park: when the leaves actually peak, which trees line the South Bank, and the mews that turns crimson every October.

The London streets, parks and churchyards where I found magnolias in bloom, and when to catch them before the petals drop.

If you often fantasize about a purple field of - let's say - crocus bulbs, then The Ham House Gardens in Richmond Upon Thames near London is the place to be every spring from now on. The National Trust has planted 120,000 Ruby Giant Crocuses and every year in February-March, Londoners can admire these spectacular purple carpets in full bloom. Ham House History in a Nutshell Known as one of the grandest Stuart houses in England, Ham House was originally built in 1610 on the ru

At last, London turned into a magical winter wonderland (after a 3-year wait). It was absolutely mad! People building snowmen like their liv

Let's take a short walk from Hyde Park's Lancaster gate to Kensington Palace! _______________________ Did you enjoy this article? Great! If you'd like to contribute to the running costs of WithinLondon, click the button below:

Every year I forget how sudden it is. One week the city is doing its usual grey, wet, six-o'clock-and-already-dark routine, and the next there are magnolias going off like fireworks on residential streets and someone's sitting outside a pub in a t-shirt looking mildly surprised at themselves. London doesn't ease into spring. It sort of flinches into it. I took this set of photos over a few weeks of just going where the light looked good, which in practice meant checking the w