ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, also called Kew Gardens, is the most

extensive botanical garden with greenhouses, with 120 hectares, located between Richmond upon Thames and Kew, is a training ground for professional gardeners, and most visited place by its great natural attraction. The gardens are spread informally, with the best developed areas. There are large greenhouses, a herbarium, and library. The director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is responsible for the world's largest collection of living plants. The organisation employs more than 650 scientists and other staff. The living collections include more than 30,000 different kinds of plants, while the herbarium, which is one of the largest in the world, has over seven million preserved plant specimens.

ATTRACTIONS Alpine House

Alpine House allows a good natural airflow of the building and the main design aim of the house is to allow the best maximum light transmission.

Museum No. 1
Near the Palm House is a building known as "Museum No. 1", its aim was to Illustrate human dependence on plants, thinking that plants are so good.

Palm House
The Palm House, reduce the most part of heating effect.

Temperate House
This greenhouse has twice the floor area of the Palm House and is the world's largest surviving Victorian glass structure

Orangery
Currently Orangery is used as a restaurant and is the most interesting and beautiful.

Princess of Wales Conservatory

Kew's third major conservatory, the Princess of Wales Conservatory, the conservatory houses ten computer-controlled micro-climatic zones.