Closed for the last five years while Donald Insall Associates oversaw a £41m restoration, Kew Gardens’ Temperate House reopens its doors today with its 10,000 plants now replanted in the building. The world’s largest Victorian glasshouse, the Grade 1 listed building, was carefully dismantled, cleaned, re-painted and re-glazed, replicating the original place blue and off-white colour scheme. Now back to its full splendour, the Temperate House will again welcome guests, some 155 years since it first opened in 1863.
Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Richmond, TW9 3AE
www.kew.org/kew-gardens/attractions/temperate-house