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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
George Hudson

Gardener’s notebook: inside the secret garden and greenhouse in the middle of Hyde Park

Behind a bank of trees in the middle of Hyde Park is one of London’s bestkept gardening secrets.

Most people remain completely unaware of the 80,000sq ft greenhouse lurking there as you look north across the Serpentine. This greenhouse grows 98 per cent of the plants used each year across the Royal Parks — about 450,000 in total. It’s also where staff propagate and care for all park plants.

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