Tree Festival at Kew

A Tree Festival at Kew Gardens takes place throughout summer 2008 giving visitors the chance to see things from up on high as well as learn more about our oxygen providing and eco stabilising friends. With a fabulous tree top walkway and plenty of opportunity to learn more about biodiversity, the Tree Festival at Kew is the greenest exhibition around.

Walking amongst the tree tops and seeing things from a completely different perspective, the highlight of the Year of Tree Festival at Kew Gardens is the Xstrata Treetop Walkway. Designed by the same architects as the people behind the London Eye, the tree top walkway takes you right up to the very top of the tree canopy and allows you to experience the views that are normally ony seen by birds.

18 metres high and built into the canopys of several of Kew's biggest trees, the walkway takes you up into the branches of sweet chestnuts, limes and oak trees. Full of bird life, insects and lichens, the tree tops visible from this 200 metre long platform give you stunning views of not onlt the trees at Kew, but the London skyline, with it's many famous landmarks.

Not only will you be able to experience the thrills of being right at the top of the tree, the Tree Festival also features the innovative Rhizotron, which takes you right down into the earth to explore the root systems and the micro organisms that live at the bottom of the tree itself. Entered Hobbit style through a crack in the ground, the Rhizotron gives you an amazing look at the roots and how they interact with the earth and other plants around them.

A more high tec inclusion into the proceedings allows you to literally hear a tree growing. Attached to the Rhizotron and the tree top walkway is a Tree Listening Installation designed by Alex Metcalf. With this unsual contraption, you can hear the sound of water being sucked up the tree roots and listen to the sound of the trunk and branches rumbling in the wind.

More tree festival fun comes in the shape of the many attractions around the grounds of Kew that give you the chance to expore the importance of trees to our landscape and how they benefit the environment. Displays on biodiversity, an exhibition of the flora and fauna of the woodland floor, and a special section of the Garden Photographer of the Year exhibition devoted to trees make up the rest of the Tree Festival at Kew.

Running throughout the summer, the Tree Festival at Kew Gardens finishes on 28th September 2008.

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