Info logo
Encyclopedia

  

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : Kew Gardens

Home :: Up
Google
www.fastload.org

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew : Kew Gardens

Royal Botanic Gardens are extensive gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond upon Thames and Kew in south-west London.

Kew was the location of the successful effort in the 19th century to propagate rubber trees for cultivation outside South America.

The Tropical House is the largest surviving Victorian greenhouse in existence.

Nearest combined rail and London Underground station: Kew Gardens (District Line and Silverlink)

External link


Put this code on your site

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
You may copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license.
To view or edit this article at Wikipedia, follow this link.