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03
2011

History of the Palm House at Kew Gardens

is.gd Experts consider Kew Gardens’ Palm House as the most important surviving Victorian iron and glass structure in the world. It was designed to accommodate the exotic palms being collected and introduced to Europe in early Victorian times. Kew is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Find out more about this remarkable building at www.kew.org

(Pls Watch in Full HD 720 or 1080 ) ** These are a few places which I captured at Kew..It is so huge and it is impossible to cover the whole of it..Hope you will like these plants and bushes like me…** The vast Princess of Wales Conservatory recreates ten climatic zones under one roof. Beneath its sloping glass roof, visitors can wander among Madagascan baobob trees, observe climbing vanilla orchids from Central America and watch carnivorous plants from Asia eating flies for lunch. The Princess of Wales Conservatory was commissioned in 1982 to replace a group of 26 smaller buildings that were falling into disrepair. It was named after Princess Augusta, founder of Kew, and opened in 1987 by Lady Diana, Princess of Wales. It is the most complex conservatory at Kew, containing ten computer-controlled climatic zones under one roof. The two main climate zones are the ‘dry tropics’, representing the world’s warm, arid areas, and the ‘wet tropics’, housing moisture loving plants from ecosystems such as rainforests and mangrove swamps. The eight remaining microclimates include a seasonally dry zone containing desert and savanna plants, plus sections for carnivorous plants, ferns and orchids. The southern end is heated more by the sun than the northern end, so this is where visitors find towering spikes of echiums and silver agaves from dry tropical regions such as the arid Canary Islands. The central area contains an elevated aquaria, complete with waterlily pond and the
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9 Responses to “History of the Palm House at Kew Gardens”

  1. Wow! Can this museum be visited by the public?

  2. I think Jospeh Hooker used to be the director there. Hooker was a botanist who helped Charles Darwin organise his work and publish on the origin of species.

  3. @AngkorFlower Thank you so much for your visits dear Sis…

  4. @Bidyyy Thank you very much for your visit my dear..It’s a great pleasure for me…
    All the best ..
    With love and hugzz to both of you…-Menu

  5. @jendhamuni Yes dear Jendhamuni…This is a paradise and I love to go again..hihi

  6. @Brbara30 Thanks my dear..Happy you liked it…

  7. * * * BEAUTIFUL !!! * * *

  8. Very beautiful garden Menu!

  9. very nice

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