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London 'plant parents' adopt a piece of historic Barbican urban jungle

Global Published 14 September 2026, 12:02 · archived 14 Sep 2026

LONDON: London’s Barbican Conservatory — a unique tropical escape above the city streets — was on Sunday transformed into an ​unlikely adoption centre, allowing hundreds of carefully screened “plant parents” to ‌take home cuttings of its rare flora. Nestling among a concrete Brutalist backdrop, described as “one of the modern wonders of the world” by the late Queen ​Elizabeth, the conservatory houses 800 species, including some of the world’s ​most threatened plants, and is set for major renovation. Ahead of ⁠that closure, plant enthusiasts were given the chance to take ​a small piece of that ...

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