Anyone personally familiar with Kew Gardens?

Various, with English, Scottish, and Welsh themes, though some are in Latin:

'Decus et tutamen' (English; popularly misquoted as "decus et tutankhamen" :-)
'Pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad' (Welsh)
'Nemo me impune lacessit' (Scottish; "nobody touches me with impunity")

The design changes each year, for the first few years on a four-year rotation of national themes, but more recently with a set of famous bridges (the ones with bridges don't have any text round the edge, just a pattern).

Resin

Hi Shoe
Glad the family had a fab time

Mike, Resin
Thats really interesting....I had never seen the lettering - love the idea of bridges ....will check when I next travel back to UK.

Sue

More interesting than that! If you fold a lady g'diver correctly you can see the queens ........ hmmmm not sure i can tell you for fear of breaking DG rules. lol But she sits on it.
Thats seriously true...

Resin wasn't me doing the miss quoting .... what does it mean anyway?

Would be nice if the names of the bridges was printed on them. I have some of those but no idea where they are.

Nope, just a popular joke rendition. Looked up the meaning, it's "an ornament and a safeguard", and the Welsh one means "I am true to my country", from the Welsh national anthem.

The 2004 pound coin has the Forth Rail Bridge, the 2005 the Menai Bridge, and the 2006 I don't know.

Ah, found a list here which has all of them:
http://www.24carat.co.uk/poundcoinsindxframe.html

Resin

Hah...no Mike, no tea with Aunt Betty; she must've been in a tizzy that day maybe?

Yes, it's this one that is one the coin, "'Pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad' . And it means ""I am true to my country"? Sheesh, shows ya how much I don't know, I was interpreting it as "I'm glad wife is pleased" and all sorts of other things! *grin

No bridges on these coins. However, on the back of the one pound coin is a picture that looks like a raccoon with a big nose wearing a crown and balancing a pineapple plant on its head. (Not meaning to sound ridiculing here, but that sure looks like it!)

Now about that lady g'diver...is that a pound note? (paper) I'll have to see if my friends still have any left!

Happy day to you all!
Shoe

Methinks that has to be Y Ddraig goch (the Welsh Dragon), if the text is 'Pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad'

Resin

It s a Five quid note. Or "Fiver"

Love the I'm pleased wiv me wife thing. very funny!

You sure the racoon isnt a pic of the queen? She's not looking her best any more. lol

Mike

Hah! Too funny, Mike! (You better behave, you might get thrown off the island!)

Resin, I wonder what that Welsh Dragon represents? Any idea?

Shoe

Oh yeah freedom of speech is a wonderfull thing.... that might fall into the realms of getting me into the tower of London though. lol

Horseshoe, Have you ever met a welsh woman? heheh

Maybe this will help:

http://www.red4.co.uk/

Heheheh, okay, now I get the dragon thing, Mike!

Mahnot, nice site. Will have to go read it some more. Guess I better bone up on Wales in case I ever get over that way.

Happy Day to ya'll.
Shoe