Meet Royal Parks gardeners who grow 250,000 flowers for UK capital's parks

Hidden in Hyde Park, a dozen high-tech greenhouses develop 1 / 4 of 1,000,000 vegetation for London's eight royal parks yearly.

The vegetation are grown from seed or cuttings and saved in twelve completely different zones on the nursery.

"We develop round 400 sorts of vegetation," stated Rob Dowling, Royal Parks nursery supervisor.

"That ranges from every part from these pelargoniums -- which can go in entrance of Buckingham Palace -- to some extra herbaceous kind vegetation that may go to Richmond Park," Dowling defined.

In 2018, nearly €6 million was spent on the nursery, and now the greenhouses have automated vents and screens that may reply to climate circumstances to assist make sure the vegetation have simply the correct quantity of daylight.

This yr the flowers grown within the nursery can be displayed for the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations, marking Elizabeth II's 70 years on the throne.

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