Amazing Places At Kew Gardens

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** 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 dangling roots of mangroves, plus displays of orchids and carnivorous plants. At the northern end are species from the moist tropics, including banana, pineapple, pepper and ginger.
Towards the northern end of the glasshouse, are some familiar houseplants originating from the wet tropics.

Grass Garden
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The Grass Garden created in 1982 to showcase some of the world's 9,000 species of grass. They are some of the world's most economically important plants, providing us with cereals such as wheat, rice and barley to eat, as well as cattle fodder. Grasses form the basis for many alcoholic drinks and are widely used around the globe for creating structures and providing thatch for buildings.

Scientists estimate that grasses make up 20 per cent of the Earth's vegetation. Kew's display contains some 550 species and the collection is still growing. Specimens range from delicate clumps of feathery Hordeum hystrix to tall stands of the Korean feather reed grass Calamagrostis brachytricha. Increasingly, grasses are being used as sources of renewable energy. For example, sugar cane is widely used to make ethanol to power road vehicles in Brazil. In 2008, Brazil produced 24 billion litres of fuel in this way.

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[Bidyyy]

* * * BEAUTIFUL !!! * * *

[lmmsl]

@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

[jendhamuni]

Very beautiful garden Menu!

[lmmsl]

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

[Brbara30]

very nice

[lmmsl]

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

[lmmsl]

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