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Kew Gardens or mainly called as The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is a wide botanical and gardens greenhouses among and Kew in southwest London and Richmond situated in England. Professor Stephen D. Hopper is the director who takes the place of Professor Sir Peter Crane. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is called as the organization that operates Wakehurst Place and Kew Gardens in Sussex. The area is globally crucial educational and botanical research organization with around 700 staff and a profit of 56 million pounds ended March last year, also as a tourist’s attraction with almost 2 million visitors in the same year. Kew Gardens is a non-departmental public being supported by the one of the department for environment and food. Kew Gardens are established in 1759 and commemorated their 250th annual celebration this year. Professor Stephen D. Hopper which is the director of the Kew Gardens is in charge for the world’s widest accumulation of living plants. The organization had almost 650 employed scientists and some staff. Almost 30,000 several kinds of animals include in their living collections, where as the herbarium that is the biggest in the world, had almost 7 million conserve plants specimen. The library includes almost 750,000 volumes, and also collection for illustrations includes 175,000 printed and drawing of plants. The location of the garden involves four Grade I recorded buildings and 36 Grade II recorded structures in a worldwide important landscape. |
