Opened on International Biodiversity Day 2008, the Rhizotron and Xstrata Treetop Walkway stands in the Arboretum, between the Temperate House and the lake.It was designed by Marks Barfield Architects, who also designed the London Eye. The 18-metre high, 200-metre walkway enables visitors to walk around the crowns of lime, sweet chestnut and oak trees. Supported by rusted steel columns that blend in with the natural environment, it provides opportunities for inspecting birds, insects, lichen and fungi at close quarters, as well as seeing blossom emerging and seed pods bursting open in Spring. The walkway’s structure is based on a Fibonacci numerical sequence, which is often present in nature’s growth patterns.
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