Wakehurst Place, Kew's 'country garden', with plants from across the world, encompasses 300 acres of walled and water gardens, woodland and wetland conservation areas. Enjoy a stroll through its wonderful spring garden around the mansion pond. The adjacent Wellcome Trust Millennium Building aims to house seeds from 10% of the world's flora to save species from extinction in the wild. Enjoy the Millennium Seed Bank interactive public exhibition in the Orange Room, observe the scientists at work from the public walkways, or view the rare and exotic plants from the Himalayas and the Southern Hemisphere.