Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
In this spot, a living treasure once grew where the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew now frames its history as a world-class center for plants. Founded in 1759 from the exotic garden at Kew Park, it grew into the world’s largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collection, with some 27,000 taxa curated by Kew. The site spans about 132 hectares (330 acres), and its living collections are complemented by a monumental herbarium housing more than 8.5 million preserved specimens, along with a library of over 750,000 volumes and an illustrations collection of more than 175,000 prints and drawings. Kew Gardens is a World Heritage Site and, together with Wakehurst in Sussex, is managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, a key botanical research and education institution employing over 1,100 staff. …
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