Kew Gardens (Palm House), London, UK GoPro 4K скачать в хорошем качестве

Kew Gardens (Palm House), London, UK GoPro 4K

Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the world's largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections. Founded in 1840 from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal 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 also it is a World Heritage Site. The Palm House (1844–1848) was the result of cooperation between architect Decimus Burton and iron founder Richard Turner and continues upon the glass house design principles developed by John Claudius Loudon and Joseph Paxton. A space frame of wrought iron arches, held together by horizontal tubular structures containing long prestressed cables, supports glass panes originally tinted green with copper oxide to reduce the significant heating effect. The 19 metres (62 ft) high central nave is surrounded by a walkway at 9 metres (30 ft) height, allowing visitors a closer look at the palm tree crowns. In front of the Palm House on the east side are the Queen's Beasts, ten statues of animals bearing shields. They are Portland stone replicas of originals by James Woodford and were placed here in 1958; London, UK 2022. Shots were taken with GoPro Hero 9 Black 4K.