What is the EDEN PROJECT ?
Over 100,000 plants representing
5,000 species from many of the climatic zones of the world. Many of these
can grow in the mild conditions of Cornwall, others demand greenhouses
and that is where Eden's two gigantic conservatories come in. The Humid
Tropics Biome - the world's largest greenhouse - is home to the plants
of the rainforest - bananas, rubber, cocoa, coffee, teak and mahogany.
Whilst the warm Temperate Biome is filled with the plants of the Mediterranean
regions of the world - South Africa, California and the Med itself. Outside
sunflowers, hemp, tea and a host of other plants from our own region
grow.
In addition to the plants themselves art is central to
Eden's interpretation strategy and right from day one there will be many
artistic expressions of storytelling across the site.
The public are naturally most interested in the excitement
of the two giant conservatories - if we were an aquarium they would be
our sharks - but there is much, much more to Eden than these two sensational
structures and the use of the word Project in the name reflects the constantly
changing nature of the place. |