Tim Smit platinum and gold discs. In 1987 he moved with his family to Cornwall and became involved with Rob Poole, John Nelson and The Lost Gardens of Heligan. During his time at Heligan, Smit wrote a popular book about the project. Later he dreamt up and then created the Eden Project, near St Austell, an £80 million initiative to build two transparent biomes in an old china clay pit near the village of Bodelva. The biomes contain different eco-climates; rainforest and Mediterranean. The outside area is also described as a biome and features areas such as "Wild Cornwall". Eden aims to
Gisborne Botanical Gardens Gisborne Botanical Gardens Gisborne Botanical Gardens is a public garden in Gisborne, New Zealand, that dates back to 1874. The Gisborne Botanical Gardens nowadays occupy between Aberdeen Road and the Taruheru River. There are still many trees remaining from the early period. There is also a Gisborne botanic garden in the town of Gisborne, Australia. The Botanical Gardens is Gisborne's oldest reserve. It was set aside in 1874 as a public garden. In that year a recreational reserve of was created, just outside the city boundary beside Taruheru River. The site developed into Gisborne's first recreation reserve, where cricket was