Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

• London, England

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Mission Statement

• To Enable Better Management of the Earths
  Environment by Increasing Knowledge and
  Understanding of the Plant and Fungal Kingdoms-
  the Basis of Life on Earth

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CONTROVERSY

• We Commoners.
• .whats your opinion?

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Kews Business is

• COOL RESEARCH
• Ex.
• Orchids
• Peat conservation

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ORCHIDS

• Grown at Kew for over two centuries
• Some research focuses on Mimicry or Deceptive
  Orchids

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• Some research focuses on Mimicry
• or Deceptive Orchids

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B-EYE The Gallery
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Peat

• Peat bogs help protect the earth from global
  warming by absorbing CO2

• 94 of Peat bogs have
• been destroyed

(All in the last 50 years)
Yet Plant Lovers still demand it!
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Alternative Kew

• Ex. Pulp surrounding coconut coir (pronounced
  Koya)
• Kew recycles 99 of their plant waste
• Plant waste is broken down in one of the UKs
  largest compost piles!

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a window to their work

• Cool Gardens in Cool Buildings

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Princess of Whales Conservatory

• 10 different climate zones inside
• Collects its own rainwater runoff to irrigate the
  conservatory and ponds

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Carnivorous Plants at Work
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Amazon Waterlily
Up to 6ft 7 in diameter Can support weight of 20
lb Child
White Pink Purplish Red Sinking Below
Surface
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Beyond Plants

• Poison dart tree frogs, water dragons and
  underwater viewing windows of fish
• Lizards for bio-control

Acanthosaurus armata
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The Evolution House

• Uses Landscape Emersion Techniques
• A walk through 35 million years of plant
  evolution
• Club Mosses Horsetails
• Cycads Conifers Today!
• Includes a Fuming Volcano and Dinosaur
  Footprints!

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Featured Fronds

• Houses a fern which has fronds that can reach up
  to 97.5 long!
• Exhibit also includes the worlds largest
  horsetail.

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Only the TIP of the Gardens

• Kew is a total of 300 acres
• Several outdoor gardens, temples, vistas,
  conservation areas and spectacular memories
  waiting to be made

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Bellona
Rose Pergola
Aeolus
Main Gate
King William
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List of Things to See

• Jodrell Laboratory (View from Colonnade)
• The Compost Pile (View from Observation deck)
• The Lower Nursery Complex (6,500 square ft. of
  greenhouse)
• Sir Joseph Banks Center for Economic Botany (one
  of largest earth covered complexes)
• Princess of Whales Conservatory
• The Evolution House

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Sources

• The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  http//www.kew.org
• Bee Eye Gallery. http//cvs.anu.edu.au/andy/beye
  /gallery.html