"educate people about environmental matters and encourages a greater understanding and empathy with these matters. Smit raised the needed funds and was the driving force, pulling the team of people together to build what has been described as 'the eighth wonder of the world' ; the site design was by Nicholas Grimshaw. The Eden Project is said to have contributed over £1 billion into the Cornish economy. Smit's book about the creation of the Eden Project, 'Eden', was first published in 2001 and updated on the 10th anniversary of the opening in March 2011. It is the best-selling environment book"
"two biomes simulates a rainforest environment and the second, a Mediterranean environment. The attraction also has an outside botanical garden which is home to many plants and wildlife native to Cornwall and the UK in general; it also has many plants that provide an important and interesting backstory, for example, those with a prehistoric heritage. The project was conceived by Tim Smit and designed by architect Nicholas Grimshaw and engineering firm Anthony Hunt and Associates (now part of Sinclair Knight Merz). Davis Langdon carried out the project management, Sir Robert McAlpine and Alfred McAlpine did the construction, MERO designed and"
"Eden Project The Eden Project () is a popular visitor attraction in Cornwall, England, UK. Inside the two biomes are plants that are collected from many diverse climates and environments. The project is located in a reclaimed china clay pit, located from the town of St Blazey and from the larger town of St Austell. The complex is dominated by two huge enclosures consisting of adjoining domes that house thousands of plant species, and each enclosure emulates a natural biome. The biomes consist of hundreds of hexagonal and pentagonal, inflated, plastic cells supported by steel frames. The largest of the"
"Tom Hart Dyke Thomas Guy Hart Dyke (born 12 April 1976) is an English horticulturist, author and plant hunter from the Hart Dyke family. He is the son and heir of Guy and Sarah Hart Dyke at the family seat of Lullingstone Castle, Eynsford, Kent.<ref name=""Passed/Failed""></ref> He is the designer of the World Garden of Plants located on the property. The World Garden contains approximately 8,000 species of plants, many collected by Hart Dyke from their native environments. He presented an episode of ""Great British Garden Revival"" in 2013. Hart Dyke attended a state primary school in Eynsford and then"
"Penjerrick Garden Penjerrick Garden, often referred to as ""Cornwall's true jungle garden"", lies between Budock Water and Mawnan Smith, near Falmouth, United Kingdom. This , sub-tropical, spring-flowering garden has views of the sea and a considerable historical and botanical interest. Penjerrick Garden was developed in the early 19th century by Robert Were Fox F.R.S. and his children, Anna Maria, Barclay and Caroline (R. W. Fox's brother, Charles was responsible for the Garden at Trebah and his brother, Alfred, for the garden at Glendurgan). They planted the upper garden with specimens collected abroad including rhododendrons, camellias, magnolias, azaleas, tree ferns and"
"Coral Gardens and Their Magic Coral Gardens and Their Magic, properly Coral Gardens and Their Magic: A Study of the Methods of Tilling the Soil and of Agricultural Rites in the Trobriand Islands, is the final book in anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski's ethnographic trilogy on the lives of the Trobriand Islanders. It concentrates on the cultivation practices the Trobriand Islanders used to grow yams, taro, bananas and palms. It describes the gardens in which the Trobrianders grew food as more than merely utilitarian spaces, even as works of art. In 1988 Alfred Gell called the book ""still the best account of"
"Penwith a flora not seen anywhere else in the UK. Penzance's Morrab Gardens is able to grow bananas. Penwith also contains an artificial lake, Drift Reservoir, which is located appromimately 3 miles west of Penzance. In addition to Penwith's status as a Heritage coastline, west Penwith, an area of 90 square kilometres, is considered an Environmentally Sensitive Area. Penwith lies within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Almost a third of Cornwall has AONB designation, with the same status and protection as a National Park. The principal towns in Penwith are Penzance, the port town and seat of"
"collections of plants, obtained from seeds collected on plant hunting expeditions around the world. It now includes a formal garden, a cottage garden, a formal garden, water features and a lake, shrubberies, a pinetum, an arboretum, a Japanese garden and a winter garden. Over 6,000 species of plants have been labelled by the owner, Mrs Shirley Clemo, and in 2008 the gardens were given a Bronze Award in the Small Visitor Attraction of the Year category, in recognition of their contribution to tourism in Cornwall. Holmbush was the location of Charlestown United Mines, one of a series of metal mines"
"Botanic Gardens of Ireland which has a satellite garden and arboretum at Kilmacurragh in County Wicklow. The gardens participate in national and international initiatives for biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. The Director, Dr. Matthew Jebb, is also Chairman of PlantNetwork: The Plant Collections Network of Britain and Ireland. It is Ireland's seventh most visited attraction, and the second most visited free attraction. The poet Thomas Tickell owned a house and small estate in Glasnevin and, in 1795, they were sold to the Irish Parliament and given to the Royal Dublin Society for them to establish Ireland's first botanic gardens. A"
"crenata"" tree for The Garden of Illusion at The Connaught hotel in London. Recently, he was also commissioned to create the Keeper's House Garden at the Royal Academy of Arts. Stuart-Smith has designed eight Gold Medal winning gardens at the Chelsea Flower Show, with three being awarded best in show. An exhibition on his work, the first about a living garden designer in the UK, was held at the Garden Museum in London in 2011. He has also lectured in the UK and the USA. Stuart-Smith is a member of the Society of Garden Designers and the Landscape Institute Stuart-Smith"
"Lost Gardens of Heligan The Lost Gardens of Heligan (, meaning ""willow tree garden""), near Mevagissey in Cornwall, are one of the most popular botanical gardens in the UK. The gardens are typical of the 19th century Gardenesque style with areas of different character and in different design styles. The gardens were created by members of the Cornish Tremayne family from the mid-18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, and still form part of the family's Heligan estate. The gardens were neglected after the First World War and restored only in the 1990s, a restoration that was the"
"Inspired by the Eden Project, which itself was built in an old clay pit in St. Austell, Cornwall, the attraction plans are to showcase hundreds of world-class paleontological remains, and these include dinosaurs, marine reptiles, marine invertebrates and plants. An aquarium is planned to be a part of the attraction, and other ideas include building aquatic tanks filled with animatronic models of prehistoric sea monsters. Other schemes involve taking visitors back in time, 140 million years ago, on a journey ""flying around the Earth"". The park has been described as about a third of the size of the Millennium Dome,"
"imagine ""many people have been honoured by both sides."" Hibbert died at his home on 12 October 2014. He was 96 years old. At the time of his death, Trebah Garden ranked as one of Cornwall's biggest horticultural attractions. The garden was in the hands of the Trebah Garden Trust, which the Hibberts had created and to which they'd donated it. The garden had opened to the public in 1987, after their first six years' work in its restoration. Hibbert's funeral took place 3 November 2014, at the Parish Church of the village of Mawnan Smith, location of Trebah Garden."
"that it is ""the only really original garden made in this country since 1945"". James Campbell, writing in ""The Guardian"", describes the garden as ""one of the wonders of 20th-century art"", and agrees with Hamilton Finlay's description of himself as the ""avant-gardener"". Little Sparta Little Sparta is a garden at Dunsyre in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Scotland, created by artist and poet Ian Hamilton Finlay and his wife Sue Finlay. The Arcadian garden includes concrete poetry in sculptural form, polemic, and philosophical aphorisms, together with sculptures and two temples. Altogether it includes over 275 artworks by the artist, created"
"University of Oxford Botanic Garden The University of Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest botanic garden in Great Britain and one of the oldest scientific gardens in the world. The garden was founded in 1621 as a physic garden growing plants for medicinal research. Today it contains over 8,000 different plant species on . It is one of the most diverse yet compact collections of plants in the world and includes representatives from over 90% of the higher plant families. Simon Hiscock became ""Horti Praefectus"" in 2015. His predecessor, Timothy Walker, served from 1988 to 2014. In 1621, Henry Danvers,"
"probably the best viewpoint in the southeast of Cornwall, with views of the Tamar valley, Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor. Kit Hill Country Park has a high wildlife population including deer and badgers, rabbits, rare moths and butterflies. On the summit of Kit Hill is an artificial fort (a Civil War redoubt) and a folly built by Sir John Call of Whiteford, Stoke Climsland, built in the style of a low-walled Saxon castle. The ""Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"" reports that in 835 (corrected by scholars to 838 AD) Egbert king of the West Saxons defeated an army of Vikings and Cornish at ""Hengestdun"""
"and outdoor events. The garden can be visited by appointment only. Williams family of Caerhays, Burncoose and Scorrier The Williams family of Caerhays, Burncoose and Scorrier were prominent owners of mines and smelting works for several generations during the Cornish Industrial Revolution. A branch of the family settled in Port Hope, Ontario, where they became well-known. The family developed ""williamsii"" hybrid camellias and fine gardens at Burncoose, Gwennap ; St Michael Caerhays and Scorrier House in Cornwall, United Kingdom. Caerhays Castle is a mock-mediaeval castle, designed by John Nash on the south coast of Cornwall, at St Michael Caerhays, between"
"converted into the World Garden of Plants by the Castle's current heir (and 20th generation of the Hart Dyke's), plant hunter Tom Hart Dyke. That conversion was the subject of the BBC2 series Save Lullingstone Castle. Tom Hart Dyke and the World Garden were again featured in Spring 2007 on the BBC2 series, Return to Lullingstone Castle. The garden and the castle are open to the public from April through to September. Lullingstone Castle Lullingstone Castle is an historic manor house, set in an estate in the village of Lullingstone and the civil parish of Eynsford in the English county"
"was the subject of a six-part Channel 4 television series produced by Bamboo Productions and Cicada Films in 1996, proved to be an outstanding success, not only revitalising the gardens but also the local economy around Heligan by providing employment. The gardens are now leased by a company owned by their restorers, who continue to cultivate them and operate them as a visitor attraction. Lost Gardens of Heligan The Lost Gardens of Heligan (, meaning ""willow tree garden""), near Mevagissey in Cornwall, are one of the most popular botanical gardens in the UK. The gardens are typical of the 19th"
"story's plot line. Garden of Cosmic Speculation The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a 30 acre (12 hectare) sculpture garden created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks at his home, Portrack House, near Dumfries in South West Scotland. Like much of Jencks' work, the garden is inspired by modern cosmology. The garden is inspired by science and mathematics, with sculptures and landscaping on these themes, such as black holes and fractals. The garden is not abundant with plants, but sets mathematical formulae and scientific phenomena in a setting which elegantly combines natural features and artificial symmetry and curves. It"
"Foundry; Saint Piran or Perran after whom Perran Foundry was named; the poet Jane Crewdson, ""née"" Fox, was born here; William Jory Henwood, mining geologist who was born at Perran Wharf; William Lobb (1809–1864), a plant collector who was responsible for the commercial introduction to England of the ""monkey puzzle"" tree ""Araucaria araucana"" and the ""Sequoiadendron giganteum"". William Golding, the novelist, died here in 1993 having lived in the village for the last 8 years of his life Perranarworthal Perranarworthal () is a civil parish and village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. The village is about four miles (6.5 km)"
"Garden of Cosmic Speculation The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is a 30 acre (12 hectare) sculpture garden created by landscape architect and theorist Charles Jencks at his home, Portrack House, near Dumfries in South West Scotland. Like much of Jencks' work, the garden is inspired by modern cosmology. The garden is inspired by science and mathematics, with sculptures and landscaping on these themes, such as black holes and fractals. The garden is not abundant with plants, but sets mathematical formulae and scientific phenomena in a setting which elegantly combines natural features and artificial symmetry and curves. It is probably unique"
"Kew Gardens Kew Gardens is a botanical garden in southwest London that houses the ""largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world"". Founded in 1840, from the exotic garden at Kew Park in Middlesex, England, its 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 preserved plant specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions and is a World Heritage Site."
"ornamental display rather than a collection of a particularly large number of varieties. Other collections and specialist areas include the rhododendron dell, the azalea garden, the bamboo garden, the juniper collection, the berberis dell, the lilac garden, the magnolia collection, and the fern collection. The world's smallest water-lily, ""Nymphaea thermarum"", was saved from extinction when it was grown from seed at Kew, in 2009. The Arboretum, which covers over half of the total area of the site, contains over 14,000 trees of many thousands of varieties. Within the arboretum, five trees survive from the establishment of the botanical gardens in"
"Sydney Gardens Sydney Gardens (originally known as Bath Vauxhall Gardens) is a public open space at the end of Great Pulteney Street in Bath, Somerset, England. The gardens are the only remaining eighteenth-century pleasure gardens (or Vauxhall) in the country. They are Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England. The gardens were laid out in the 1790s, to plans by Thomas Baldwin which were completed by Charles Harcourt Masters, as a commercial pleasure garden with a variety of attractions. Features included a maze, grotto, sham castle and an artificial rural"
"numbers and income. A parkrun takes place at Heartlands every Saturday . Heartlands Cornwall Heartlands Cornwall, often known simply as Heartlands, is a World Heritage Site Gateway and visitor attraction in Pool, Cornwall, England, UK. It has been dubbed as Cornwall's first free cultural playground. It was developed at South Crofty's Robinson Shaft and spread over 19 acres in the former mining heart of Cornwall. The project was funded by the National Lottery and was opened on 20 April 2012 after 14 years of planning. In 2014 the project came close to closure and was forced to reorganise its business"
"Butterfly World, Hertfordshire The Butterfly World Project was a visitor attraction in the village of Chiswell Green, on the outskirts of St Albans in Hertfordshire, UK, dedicated to showcasing and promoting learning about butterflies. It closed permanently in 2015. The project was started by lepidopterist Clive Farrell, and was launched in 2008 at the Royal Society in London. Farrell secured a number of high-profile patrons for the scheme, including naturalists Sir David Attenborough and Professor David Bellamy, gardener and broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh, actress Emilia Fox, and barrister and politician Baroness Helena Kennedy. Construction began at the site at Chiswell Green,"
"UK, sharing his experiences as a TV gardener and his deeper horticultural expertise with the public. Select public speaking appearances include: His approach is to attract people not normally interested in gardening by enticing them with innovative design and inspiring ideas. He created a Piranha-infested underwater garden with five tanks containing plant biotopes at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2009. His show shocked the nation and stopped the Queen in her tracks. It also won him a Gold Medal. The following year he created the Ace of Diamonds garden – the most expensive show garden ever seen at the"
"Trebah Trebah (, meaning ""Gorabo's farm"") is a sub-tropical garden situated in Cornwall, England, UK, near Glendurgan Garden and above the Helford River (). Part of the parish of Mawnan, the gardens are set within an area of the same name, which includes the small settlements of Trebah Wartha and Trebah Woolas (both are of medieval origin). In 1831 Trebah was acquired by the Fox family who built Glendurgan Garden. Trebah was first laid out as a pleasure garden by Charles Fox, a Quaker polymath of enormous creative energy who paid meticulous attention to the exact positioning of every tree."
"Prince William, by his father, the Duke of Cornwall (Prince Charles). It is managed by Cornwall Council, and consists of some 400 acres (152 hectares), making it the most dominant landscape feature in East Cornwall. Kit Hill is the highest point in the Tamar Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The hill was formed in the same way as nearby Bodmin Moor by the intrusion of magma into overlying sedimentary rocks. This caused the formation of many mineral deposits that were mined extensively in the 18th and early 19th centuries. As the highest point of Hingston Down, Kit Hill is"
"Heartlands Cornwall Heartlands Cornwall, often known simply as Heartlands, is a World Heritage Site Gateway and visitor attraction in Pool, Cornwall, England, UK. It has been dubbed as Cornwall's first free cultural playground. It was developed at South Crofty's Robinson Shaft and spread over 19 acres in the former mining heart of Cornwall. The project was funded by the National Lottery and was opened on 20 April 2012 after 14 years of planning. In 2014 the project came close to closure and was forced to reorganise its business plan and reduce its paid staff as a consequence of low visitor"
"Birmingham Botanical Gardens The Birmingham Botanical Gardens are a botanical garden situated in Edgbaston, Birmingham, England. The gardens are close to the centre of Birmingham and open every day except Christmas Day and Boxing Day. They are located at , a mile and a half from Birmingham city centre. It is an independent educational charity. The gardens were designed in 1829 by J. C. Loudon, a leading garden planner, horticultural journalist and publisher and opened to the public on 11 June 1832. The layout of the Botanical Gardens has changed very little since Loudon first designed it. There are four"
"has written articles for the ""Financial Times"", ""Guardian"" and ""Telegraph"" on the subject of gardening and landscape design. In 2011 he co-wrote and published a book titled ""The Barn Garden"". Tom Stuart-Smith Tom Stuart-Smith (born 14 February 1960) is an English landscape architect, garden designer and writer. He specialises in making gardens that combine naturalism and modernity. Stuart-Smith was brought up in Hertfordshire on the Serge Hill estate in Bedmond. Four generations of his family have lived at Serge Hill since his grandfather bought the estate in 1927. After earning a degree in Zoology at the University of Cambridge he"