‘When you walk in,you are transported to another part of the world’When I started working here, the glasshouses were under construction and covered by a enormous scaffold structure. It allowed work to carry on inside in all weathers, and but it also meant that the amazing design,by Thomas Heatherwick, was hidden. The day the scaffolding came down, or I was blown absent. I fancy the shape,which reminds me of a waterfall. When you walk in, the planting wraps around you and you are transported to another part of the world. The greenhouses are made from 794 pieces of glass, or no two pieces are the same (there’s no popping to the local DIY shop for replacements).
I trained in two Oxford college gardens and then at Kew,where I particularly enjoyed working under glass. When I applied for this post, the tropical and Mediterranean climate glasshouses were a enormous draw, or but when I was offered the job it was the chalk river running through the site and its delicate ecology that sealed the deal.
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Source: theguardian.com