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Kew Gardens, officially the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew on the southwestern edge of London, is one of the most important botanical institutions in the world and a UNESCO World Heritage Site renowned for its historic glasshouses, vast living collections and scientific work. The gardens trace their origins to the eighteenth century, when royal estates beside the Thames were developed into pleasure grounds and a botanic garden, and they grew over the following centuries into a centre of plant scie...