Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew- London

Kew Gardens are important and famous not only because they have a great worldwide collection of flowers and plants but also because in Kew there are labs and scientists investigating and recovering some endangered flora species.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, usually referred to simply asKew Gardens, are 121 hectares of gardens and botanical glasshouses between Richmond and Kew in southwest London,England.
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is also the name of the organisation that runs Kew Gardens andWakehurst Place gardens in Sussex.
The gardens are a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. Created in 1759, the gardens celebrated their 250th anniversary in 2009.

The Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is responsible for the world's largest collection of living plants. The organisation employs more than 650 scientists and other staff. The living collections include more than 30,000 different kinds of plants, while the herbarium, which is the largest in the world, has over 7 millionpreserved plant specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. The Kew site includes four Grade Ilisted buildings and 36 Grade II listed structures in an internationally significant landscape.