Isabella Plantation virtual tour in 360: Richmond Park in bloom

Three spherical panoramas of the Isabella Plantation, the woodland garden of Richmond Park in south-west London, photographed by Diliff on 7 May 2015 with the azaleas in full flower. Fenced in the early 19th century by Lord Sidmouth to keep the park's deer out, it was turned into a woodland garden after the Second World War, opened to the public in 1953 and is now run organically by The Royal Parks. The tour follows the central stream between banks of pink, red and white azaleas and ends at Still Pond, one of the garden's three ponds, whose surface reflects the flowering shrubs.

The central stream among the azaleas

Spherical panorama of the central stream of the Isabella Plantation: a narrow brook between banks of bright pink, magenta and red azaleas, ferns, tall oaks in fresh leaf and a bare earth path

The central stream of the Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park, London, in early May, when the evergreen azaleas are in flower.

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The spherical photographs in this tour come from Wikimedia Commons and are used under their free licence: - **The central stream among the azaleas**: photograph Diliff, [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isabella_Plantation_1_360x180,_London,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg) - **Further along the stream**: photograph Diliff, [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isabella_Plantation_2_360x180,_London,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg) - **Still Pond**: photograph Diliff, [CC BY-SA 3.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0), [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isabella_Plantation_3_360x180,_London,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg)

Further along the stream

Spherical panorama further along the central stream: the earth path forks around masses of pink, white and purple azaleas, with the brook running between them under a canopy of young leaves

A second viewpoint on the central stream, a few steps downstream, with the path forking around the flowering shrubs.

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Still Pond

Still Pond, one of the three ponds of the Isabella Plantation with Peg's Pond and Thomson's Pond, all de-silted in the 2014 restoration works.

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