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Botanic Gardens and Palm House
Occupying 28 acres of south Belfast, the gardens are popular with locals
and tourists alike, and are set in Belfast's university
area, with Queen's University and The Ulster Museum nearby.
Botanic Gardens and Palm House are run by Belfast City Council, who took over from the Botanical and Horticultural Society in 1895. The jewel in the garden is the Palm House, one of the earliest examples of a curvilinear cast iron glasshouse in the world. Belfast's Palm House predates the glasshouses at Kew and the Irish National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin and consists of two wings, the cool wing and the tropical wing which contains the dome.
The gardens also contain another glasshouse, the Tropical Ravine House. Built by head gardener Charles McKimm in 1889, it features a unique design. A sunken ravine runs the length of the building, with a balcony at each side for viewing. The gardens also feature one of the longest herbaceous borders in Britain or Ireland and there is also a rose garden built in 1932 and various species of tree, including the hornbeam-oak.
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