"The Laboratory," Jellicoe Canal and Water-Lilies at Wisley Gardens, Surrey.

Commentary.

 

Wisley is a 240 acre horticultural mecca

for the floribunda of Britain and beyond.

It has a variety of habitats, from rock gardens and meadow

to wetlands and forest.

This mock-Tudor Edwardian building housed the

experimentation, preservation and conservation,

as a laboratory, at the start of the last century.

Now, tens of thousands of plants,

trees and their seeds have been conserved

for future generations.

This is in anticipation of further irreversible changes

in climate, ecosystems or other man-made interference

with the natural order.

The legacy of this project may prove

to be totally priceless.

 

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