Wakehurst Place description and photos - United Kingdom: Ardingley (Topic)

Wakehurst Place description and photos - UK: Ardingley. Detailed information about the attraction. Description, photographs and a map showing the nearest significant objects. The title in English is Wakehurst Place.

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Wakehurst Place is a manor house, an old 16th century mansion and gardens, mostly 20th century, located near Ardingley in west Sussex. The gardens are part of the Royal Botanic Gardens and cover an area of two square kilometers. Basically, the gardens were created by Gerald Loder, the first Baron Wakehurst, who bought the estate in 1903 and devoted 33 years to planning, growing and tending the garden. Its successor was Sir Henry Price, who bequeathed the gardens to the state in 1963, and in 1965 the gardens were taken over by the Royal Botanic Gardens. Wakehurst Place is now the property of the UK National Trust.

Wakehurst Place is home to the largest Christmas tree in the UK - a giant sequoia 35 meters high, on which 1800 lights come on on Christmas Eve.

Here is a national collection of various types of birches, beeches, St. John's wort and skimmy. Also in Wakehurst Place is the Millennium Seed Bank - a repository of seeds for various plant species. The seeds are dried, packed in glass containers and stored in an underground storage at a temperature of -20 degrees Celsius. Experts say that such seeds will be suitable for cultivation for many years, which will allow the restoration of plants that have disappeared from the face of the earth. The Seed Bank was founded in 2000, which is why it is called the Millennium Seed Bank. This is an international project involving a variety of countries. Now the storage has collected several million seeds of 24,000 plant species (10% of all plants on earth).

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