Garden
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Botanic gardens with the world's largest botanical collections
Kew Gardens
About
Founded in 1759, Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London comprising 132 hectares of gardens and glasshouses. It houses the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world, including an herbarium with over 8.5 million specimens and a library containing over 750,000 volumes.
Things to do here
Walk through the gardens and glasshousesView exotic plant collectionsVisit the Palm House and Alpine HouseExplore the landscape and historic buildingsSee preserved plant and fungal specimens
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Getting there
Stations
Kew Gardens · 12 min walk
DistrictMildmay
Richmond · 21 min walk
District
Buses
65
Ealing Broadway · South Ealing · Chiswick · Tudor Drive · Kingston Riverside
N65
Ealing Broadway · Brentford · Richmond Park · Surbiton · Chessington
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