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London Kew Gardens

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to simply as Kew Gardens, are extensive gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest London, England. The director is Professor Stephen D. Hopper, who succeeded Professor Sir Peter Crane. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is also the name of the organization that runs Kew Gardens and Wakehurst Place gardens in Sussex. It is an internationally important botanical research and education institution with 700 staff and an income of £44 million for the year ended 31 March 2006, as well as a visitor attraction. The gardens are a Non-Departmental Public Body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

In 2005 Kew Chauffeur driven car hire received 1.48 million visitors, which was the most since 1949 and is the largest number for any paid entry garden in the United Kingdom. The gardens are mostly informal, with a few formal areas. There are conservatories, a herbarium, a library (admission by appointment only, +44 20 8332 5414) and eating places. In the winter months there is an ice rink.

Herbarium and seedbank

The Kew herbarium is one of the largest in the world with approximately 7 million specimens used primarily for taxonomic chauffeur driven luxury cars study. The herbarium is rich in types for all regions of the world, especially the tropics.

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Kew is important as chauffeur driven luxury cars a seedbank. It co-sponsors the Millennium Seed Bank Project inside the Welcome Trust Millennium Building at Wakehurst Place in Sussex.
Despite unfavourable growing conditions (atmospheric pollution from London, dry soils and low rainfall) Kew remains one of the most chauffeur driven luxury cars comprehensive plant collections in Britain. In an attempt to expand Chauffeur driven car the collections away from these unfavourable conditions, Kew has established two out-stations, at Wakehurst Place in Sussex, a National Trust property, and (jointly with the Forestry Commission) Bedgebury Pinetum in Kent, the latter specializing in growing conifers.

Library and archives

The library and archives at Kew are one of the world's largest botanical collections, with over half a million items, including books, botanical illustrations, photographs, letters and manuscripts, periodicals, and maps. The Jodrell Library with london taxi was recently merged with the Economic Botany and Mycology Libraries and all are now housed in the Jodrell Laboratory.

Attractions

Alpine house
In March 2006 the Davies chauffeur driven luxury cars Alpine House opened, the third version of an alpine house since 1887.

Chokushi-Mon
Standing Chauffeur driven car near the Pagoda there is a replica of part of a Japanese temple. Built in 1910, it is a copy of the Karamon (Chinese gate) of Nishi Hongan-ji in Kyoto. It is surrounded by a reconstruction of a traditional Japanese garden.

Compost heap
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Guided walks
Free tours Chauffeur driven car of the gardens are conducted by trained volunteers and leave from Victoria Gate at 11am and 2pm every day (except Christmas Day).

International Garden Photographer of the Year Exhibition
Near the Pavilion Restaurant chauffeur driven luxury cars there is an open air display of selected entries for the 2008 "International Garden Photographer of the Year" competition.
This competition is now an annual event.

Kew Palace
Kew Palace is the smallest of the British royal palaces. It was built by Samuel Fortrey, a Dutch merchant in around 1631. It was later purchased by George III. The construction method is known as 'Flemish Bond' and involves laying the bricks with long and short sides alternating. This and the gabled front tend chauffeur driven luxury cars to give the construction a definite Dutch appearance.
To the rear of the building is the "Queen's Garden" which includes a collection of plants believed to have medicinal qualities. No plants that were not extant in England before the seventeenth century are grown in the garden.
The building underwent significant restoration before being opened to the public in 2006.
It is administered separately from chauffeur driven luxury cars the gardens and is the only permanently open attraction within the grounds that requires an additional fee to view.

Minka house
Following the Japan 2001 festival, Kew acquired a Japanese wooden house called a minka. It was originally erected in around 1900 in a suburb of Okazaki. Japanese craftsmen reassembled the Chauffeur driven car framework and British builders who had worked on the Globe Theatre added the mud wall panels.
Work on the house started on the seventh of May 2001 and when the framework was completed on the twenty first of May chauffeur driven luxury cars in the same year a Japanese ceremony was held to mark what was considered an auspicious occasion. Work on the building of the house was completed in November of 2001 but the internal artifacts were not all in place until 2006.
The Minka house is Chauffeur driven car located within the bamboo collection in the West central part of the gardens.

Marianne North Gallery
The Marianne North Gallery was built in the 1880s to house the paintings of Marianne North, an MP's daughter who travelled alone to North and South America and many parts of Asia to paint plants in a time when women rarely chauffeur driven luxury cars did so. The gallery has 832 of her paintings. The paintings were left to Kew by the artist and condition of the bequest is that the layout of the paintings in the gallery may not be altered.

Museums
Near the Palm House Chauffeur driven car is a building known as "Museum No. 1" which was designed by Decimus Burton and opened in 1857. Its aim was to illustrate mankind's dependence on plants, housing Kew's economic botany collections chauffeur driven luxury cars including tools, ornaments, clothing, food and medicines. The building was refurbished in 1998. The upper two floors are Chauffeur driven car hire now an education centre and the ground floor houses the "Plants+People" exhibition which highlights the variety of plants and the ways that people use them.
Admission to the galleries and museums is free after for paying admission to the Gardens (£13, children under 17 free if accompanied by an adult).

Pagoda
In a corner of Kew Gardens stands chauffeur driven luxury cars the Great Pagoda (by William Chambers), erected in the year 1762, from a design in imitation of the Chinese Ta. The lowest of the ten octagonal storeys is 49 feet (15 m) in diameter. From the base to the highest point is 163 feet (50 m).
Each storey finishes with a projecting roof, after the Chinese manner, originally covered with ceramic tiles and adorned with large chauffeur driven luxury cars dragons; a story is still propagated that they were made of gold and were reputedly sold by George IV to settle his debts. The truth is that the dragons were made of wood painted gold, and simply rotted away with the ravages of time. The walls of the building are chauffeur driven luxury cars composed of brick. The staircase, 253 steps, is in the centre of the building. The Pagoda was closed to the public for many years, but reopened for the summer months in 2006. Renovation is under way for permanent opening to the public to celebrate Kew's 250th birthday in 2009.
During the Second World War a hole chauffeur driven luxury cars in each floor was cut so there was a hole running down the inside from top to bottom. Model bombs were then dropped to test the way that they fell.

Queen Charlotte's Cottage
Within the conservation area is Chauffeur driven car a cottage that was given to Queen Charlotte as a wedding present on her marriage to George III. It has chauffeur driven luxury cars been restored by Historic Royal Palaces and is separately administered by them.
It is open to the public on the May Day and August bank holidays and at weekends during July and August.

Rhizotron
A rhizotron opened at the same time as the treetop walkway giving visitors the opportunity to investigate what happens beneath the chauffeur driven luxury cars ground where trees grow. The rhizotron is essentially a single gallery containing a set of large bronze abstract castings which contain LCD screens that carry repeating loops of information about the life of trees.

Sackler Crossing
The Sackler Crossing bridge made of granite and bronze opened in May 2006. Designed by Buro Happold and John Pawson, it crosses the lake and is named in honor of philanthropists Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler.

Shirley Sherwood Gallery
The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanic chauffeur driven luxury cars Art opened in April 2008, and holds Chauffeur driven car hire paintings from Kew's and Dr Shirley Sherwood's collections, many of which have never been displayed to the public before. It features paintings by artists such as Georg D. Ehret, the Bauer brothers, Pierre-Joseph Redouté and chauffeur driven luxury cars Walter Hood Fitch. The paintings and drawings will be cycled on a six monthly basis. The gallery is linked to the Marianne North Gallery (see above).

Treetop walkway
A new treetop walkway opened on May 24th, 2008. This walkway is 18 m high and 200 m long and takes visitors into the tree canopy of a woodland glade.
There is a short film detailing the construction of the walkway showing on a repeat loop in the Princess of Wales Conservatory for the duration of the 2008 trees festival, but also available online.

Vehicular tour
Kew Explorer is a service that takes a circular route around the gardens, provided by two 72-seater road trains that are fueled by Calor Gas. A commentary is provided by the driver and there are several stops. Tickets cost £4 for adults and £1 for children, and allow travel for the whole day.

Waterlily house
The water lily house is the hottest chauffeur driven luxury cars and most humid of the houses at Kew and contains a large pond with varieties of waterlily, surrounded by a display of economically Chauffeur driven car hire important heat-loving plants.

Plant collections at Kew

  • The Arboretum
  • The Cacti collection
  • Other collections
  • The Alpine collection
  • The Grass collection
  • The Rhodedendron dell
  • The Azaelea garden
  • The Bamboo garden
  • The Rose garden
  • The Juniper collection
  • The Berberis dell
  • The Lilac garden
  • The Aquatic garden
  • The Rock garden
  • The Herb garden
  • The Fern collection
  • The Orchid collection

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