Kew Gardens
Introduction
Book your Kew Garden tickets and visit the largest UNESCO World Heritage Site in London and one of the most popular tourist locations in the city. It's the ideal location for a day trip with your family and friends. Visit several botanical art exhibits and take in this location's 250 years of royal history. The gardens feature new plants that have been transplanted from the Temperate House to the Palm House's tropical rainforests.
One of the best places to see London in Spring, the Kew Gardens have over 50,000 living plants including many rare and endangered species. One of the top attractions in the gardens is the Rhododendron Dell where you can see many dense clusters of flowers including many hybrids which are not available anywhere in the world. The gardens also have a children's garden where your kids can explore fun interactive places to climb, jump and play. Stroll through the beautiful lake crossing on a black granite walkway that will take you to the lake's banks.
Highlights
- Experience London In Spring at the Kew Gardens and witness some of the exotic rain forests.
- Visit the Royal retreats where you can witness the princess's bedrooms, dining rooms, and also the beautiful Georgian Royal kitchens
- Explore the beautiful galleries which consist of botanical art and learn over 250 years of history.
- Book your Kew Gardens Tickets and get a chance to explore 10 types of climatic zones at the Princess of Wales Conservatory.
- Explore the treetops while being elevated at a height of 18 meters above the ground.
Attractions at the Kew Gardens
Temperate House:
Voted as the 'Best UK National Treasure 2018, the Temperate House is one of the most popular attractions in the Kew Gardens. The Temperate House, a famous landmark and a lighthouse for plant science, is the beating heart of Kew Gardens and is enriched with more than 250 years of plant knowledge. Home to over 10,000 plants, you can visit this beautiful house and learn more about the world’s most pressing issues, from climate change to loss of biodiversity or food security. All species found within its walls are temperate plants, which require temperatures over 10 degrees Celsius to survive. Many of these plants are in danger even though they are the basis of much of the life on Earth.
Great Broad Walk Borders
The Great Broad Walk Borders are spread out in a spectrum of colors and are thought to be the longest herbaceous borders in the country. The borders are over 320 meters long and are known to provide a sensory experience with their fresh scents, brilliant flowerbeds, and airy grasses. You can observe these beautiful flowers in a colorful show that changes with the seasons.
It is said that the original purpose of the borders was to serve as an impressive promenade to the Palm House. and was replanted in 2016. You can witness the beautiful plant families which are arranged in eight enormous circular beds according to themes. Get a chance to look at some amazing flowers such as swathes of the geranium 'Orion,' salvias, lilies, and spires of Verbascum.
Rhododendron Dell
Experience London In Spring at the Rhododendron Dell and witness many new specimens of rhododendrons. You can witness a lot of rhododendrons flowers which are in the form of many unique hybrids which cannot be found anywhere in the world. Some of the examples include the earliest variety of Rhododendron, R. campanulatum, and also the pink-flowered Rhododendron kotschyi from the Carpathian and Balkan regions. The best time to visit Rhododendron Dell
is from April and May when enormous shrubs explode with color, exhibiting vibrant petals from every aspect.
Arboretum
Book your Kew Gardens Tickets to visit the Arboretum which is home to over 2,000 species, including rare and historic variations, by the 14,000 trees. This magnificent collection includes numerous trees that are unique to Britain and are as old as the Gardens themselves.
Each tree that is planted here serves as a knowledge resource, enables preserve the ecosystems, and defends some of the most fascinating species that are threatened by deforestation. Some of the most treasured trees are the heritage trees which date back to the 18th century. You can witness trees like the Japanese pagoda tree, the Lucombe oak, and also the black locust tree.
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Japanese Landscape
One of the most beautiful places to visit with the Kew Gardens Tickets, the Japanese Landscape is a manicured landscape that is designed to resemble a Japanese gateway. Visit the Garden of Peace which resembles the beautiful traditional Japanese garden and experience London In Spring. You can witness two landscapes which are joined by the Garden of Harmony. The rocks and stones that make up the mountainous regions of Japan are interspersed with bushes. Anemone x hybrid, a Japanese anemone, and low-lying hedges of Rhododendron 'Mother's Day are among the flora.
Great Pagoda
The Pagoda at Kew Gardens was completed in 1762 as a present for Princess Augusta, who established the Gardens. Sir William Chambers, who had traveled and studied East Asian architecture, had created a number of Chinese structures for Kew Gardens. It provided one of the earliest and best bird's eye views of London and was a well-liked "folly" of the time. Book the Kew Gardens Tickets to enjoy the beautiful panoramic views of London. The Great Pagoda was restored back to its pre-18th-century century in 2018. This includes the 80 carved-from-wood, gold-plated dragons that once decorated the roofs.
Palm House
Get the Kew Gardens Tickets and explore this amazing indoor rainforest to find exotic species from some of the most endangered ecosystems on the planet. Witness many plants in this collection that are extinct or critically endangered in the wild. Others, such as the cocoa tree, African oil palm, and rubber tree, provide enormous value to societies all over the world for the fruit, wood, spices, and medicine they yield.
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