#temperate house

[michaelnordeman]

Kew Gardens in London, UK (July 1, 2025).

[skylerorionx]

temperate house in kew gardens // tumblr - instagram 

[sharkbait-huhaha]

Temperate House, Kew Gardens

[ghostalope]

Second Greenhouse 💕💐✨

(Sorry for the pics of bark. I really enjoy textured bark lol)

[groovyb4by]

[travelling-my-little-pony]

July is the month that Kimono looks at Chihuly sculptures at Kew Gardens!

These are works in glass designed by Dale Chihuly.

In Kew, in Surrey, England.

[tattooed-alchemist]

The Temperate House at Kew was restored a couple years back, and I can only look at it and think how they don’t have earthquakes in London.  It’s hosting part of the visiting Chihuly glass exhibition.  

I like Chihuly, but I also have a Seattle-resident attitude about his work, which is a tad mind-blowing to Londoners.  I’m all, “yeah, there’s like a piece or two of Chihuly’s stuff at every single shopping mall where I live.”

[rjzimmerman]

World's Largest Greenhouse Reopens to Safeguard Earth's Rarest and Most Threatened Plants, Including the Loneliest Plant in the World

The world's largest Victorian greenhouse will reopen its doors Saturday after a five-year, £41 million ($55 million) restoration effort.

Excerpt:

The world's largest Victorian greenhouse will reopen its doors Saturday after a five-year, £41 million ($55 million) restoration effort.

The Temperate House, first opened to the public in 1863, is located in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, about 30 minutes from central London.

The greenhouse is home to 10,000 plants from 1,500 species native to Africa, Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific Islands, including some of the rarest and most threatened.

There you'll find the Yellow fatu, a critically endangered perennial plant native to Pitcairn Island, a remote island in the South Pacific. The delicate flower can no longer be found in the wild after a landslide destroyed the last remaining plant.

You'll also see the loneliest plant in the world—a male Wood's cycad. Lead horticulturalist Scott Taylor, who oversees the Temperate House collection, explained to the BBC that the search is still going for a female cycad so Encephalartos woodii can be bred.

"With the global challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and food security, these important plant collections highlight Kew's role in safeguarding rare and threatened plants from extinction," the garden notes on its website.