"We don't know exactly how old they are and obviously we're not going go cut the trunks to count the rings, but two of them are so old that the crowns have hollowed out and rotted. We prune them each year and when I'm doing it I'm very aware that I'm one of an incredibly long line of horticulturalists going back to Roman times who've attended to these plants."
"The brainchild of Tim Smit, a Dutch entrepreneur who wanted to reconnect people with nature, the Eden Project was built on the site of a former clay quarry in Cornwall and was part-funded using 56m from the national lottery via the Millennium Commission. The non-profit charity has welcomed more than 25 million visitors over the past quarter of a century."
The Eden Project, founded by Dutch entrepreneur Tim Smit on a former clay quarry site in Cornwall, celebrates 25 years of reconnecting people with nature. Built with £56 million in Lottery funding, the attraction features a Mediterranean biome containing rare and ancient plants, including olive trees thought to be up to 1,500 years old that were brought from Portugal. The horticulture team carefully maintains these specimens, with staff like Kim Mackintosh managing plants that represent centuries of horticultural tradition. Over 25 million visitors have attended the non-profit charity, which has generated £6.8 billion in total economic impact for southwest England.
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