Kew Gardens (Princess of Wales Conservatory), London, UK GoPro 4K

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  • Опубликовано: 8 окт 2022
  • Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the world's largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections. Founded in 1840 from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions, and also it is a World Heritage Site.
    Kew's third major conservatory, the Princess of Wales Conservatory, designed by architect Gordon Wilson, was opened in 1987 by Diana, Princess of Wales, commemorating her predecessor Augusta's associations with Kew. It replaced 26 smaller buildings. In 1989 the conservatory received the Europa Nostra award for conservation. The conservatory houses ten computer-controlled micro-climatic zones, with the bulk of the greenhouse volume composed of Dry Tropics and Wet Tropics plants. Significant numbers of orchids, water lilies, cacti, lithops, carnivorous plants and bromeliads are housed in the various zones. The cactus collection also extends outside the conservatory, where some hardier species can be found; London, UK 2022. Shots were taken with GoPro Hero 9 Black 4K.

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