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Buildings and Structures
Glasshouses
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Evolution House
Visiting the Evolution House is a fascinating walkthrough experience of plant evolution over 3,500 million years. Three major "milestones" have been selected to illustrate the incredibly long history of plant evolution in the space available: the Silurian, Carboniferous and Cretaceous periods. Exciting effects take you through the evolutionary process, with a fuming volcano and glowing red lava, even dinosaur footprints!
The display itself encompasses stromatolites, Cooksonia (the first plants that adapted to life on land), liverworts, mosses, selaginellas, and the first ferns.
The Evolution House is a completely new type of educational-horticultural display concept, involving landscape immersion techniques. A leaflet providing further information on the Evolution House is available inside the glasshouse itself.
The Evolution House is number 11 on the visitor map.