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Country: UK
Location: Richmond
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Size: 300 acres
Year Construction Started: 1759
Discover more about this garden here: https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-in-the-gardens
Fun Facts:
- The world’s oldest pot plant, a huge Jurassic cyad, has lived there since 1775.
- Kew Gardens has had it's own police force since the 1840s.
- In 1987 the world’s smallest water-lily was discovered in Mashyuza, Rwanda. Conservationists saved it from extinction by growing it from seeds at Kew Gardens. In 2014, one of these rare water lilies was stolen.