Wakehurst Place and Millennium Seed Bank: Wakehurst Place, in the beautiful High Weald of Sussex, is an outstanding botanic garden and conservation area, managed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The Millennium Seed Bank Project is housed in the Wellcome Trust Millennium Building, located at Wakehurst Place in West Sussex. There are an amazing assortment of shrubs, trees and flowers, winter garden and rock walk.
The estate is home to no fewer than four National Collections - hypericums, skimmias, birches and southern beeches. Wakehurst Place has a mild, friendly climate, a high rainfall and moisture-retentive soils, complementing the conditions at Kew and allowing many important groups of plants, unable to be grown successfully at Kew, to flourish here.
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