North American Landscape
Kew at the British Museum
10 May – 25 November 2012
Free

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Videos
How to make American pancakes
Bea's recipe:
Ingredients
250 g plain flour
50 g caster sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon sodium bicarbonate
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 eggs
500 ml buttermilk
50 g melted butter
To serve
Maple syrup
Preparation method
- Mix all dry ingredients together and stir until well-combined
- Add all wet ingredients and stir until the batter is completely wet, but not over mixed – lumps are okay
- In a non-stick skillet on medium heat, spoon some of the mixture and cook for two minutes on each side
- Serve with maple syrup
How to plant a window box
Follow the build: time lapse video
Other photos from the landscape build

A digger preparing the landscape

Kew experts planning the build

Planting a tree

A lonely JCB in the early landscape

Reflection of the British Museum

Planning

Planting the landscape

The pots stack up as work continues

Preparing the marshland or just too much rain?

A damp Kew expert

Sunlit pitcher plants, sarracenia sp.

Flowers of the landscape

Landscape walkway

Pitcher plants in the landscape

Applying some finishing touches to the landscape