Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens

Botanical Garden · Richmond upon Thames, London
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As of May 2018, Kew Gardens’ breath-taking Temperate House will open after a five-year closure. Contact our Events Team to arrange a truly awe-inspiring site visit. WORLD RENOWNED GARDENS & BUILDINGS

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With 300 acres of green space dotted with rare plants, Victorian glasshouses, a Chinese pagoda and a treetop walkway, Kew Gardens is unlike anywhere else. This world-leading botanic garden is captivating any time of year. Right now, it’s a crunchy, autumnal paradise; its innovative annual Christmas lights trail is coming soon. The newly restored Temperate House is a horticulturalist’s delight, home to encephalartos woodii, one of the rarest plants in the world, that outlived the dinosaurs.
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Kew is filled with all manner of gardens: rose gardens, Japanese gardens, grass gardens. However, their most impressive hortological exhibit has to be the Great Broad Walk Borders, apparently 'the longest herbaceous borders in the country' which lead visitors down a trail of colour and scents for 320 metres.
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London’s botanical HQ is packed with floral wonders come spring. Make time for its Cherry Walk, starting at the Rose Garden at the back of Palm House, which is full of Japanese cherries. Two parallel rows with 15 trees apiece form a blushing runway to Temperate House. Go in April and they’ll also be accompanied by a thousand tulips.
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“This is basically a huge botanic garden with hundreds of acres of woodland. They have a treetop bridge where you can walk in the treetops. In addition, they have a tropical garden with plants from all over the world. I actually went there on a date, and it was probably the best date I’ve ever been on. It was so wholesome. Definitely go for a picnic on a sunny day.”
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