Today’s “Museum Monday” video is a gorgeous (and at times, quietly amusing) time-lapse short that captures the springtime explosion of flora currently taking place at Kew Gardens. In this video, we watch magnolias, tulips, daffodils, bluebells and trees as they burst into flower and leaf, transforming the Gardens into a bold and beautiful display of colour.
But Kew is more than a pleasant botanical garden and park; they are a sizeable museum that maintains an herbarium and fungarium, a major conservatory that hosts a DNA and seed bank, and a research institution and online resource centre. They also house a botanical art gallery, host a number of historic buildings and they teach classes about plants. Of course. In short, Kew Gardens is your go-to place for anything plant-related: if they don’t have what you need, they certainly will know who does.
Just 30 minutes from central London, Kew Gardens is filled with breathtaking landscapes, iconic glasshouses, historic buildings and a vast range of rare and beautiful plants -- and lots of birds! So bring your camera kit and your binoculars! As an added bonus, children aged 16 and under enter free until 22 April 2015.
You can find Kew Gardens on twitter @KewGardens
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