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Palm House
Forty metres of wrought-iron rib over the oldest palms in the north.
Botanical conservatory · est. 1868
Every edge
dissolves into leaf.
Halden is a Victorian glasshouse where the jungle, the fog and the iron all blur into one another. So does this page: one alpha mask, tuned below, softens the canopy, the readings and the zone picker alike.
Specimen register
Labels that drift in and out of the mist.
Eleven thousand accessions, from a cycad that has no living wild relatives to seedlings pricked out last week. The register scrolls forever; a vertical mask lets each line arrive from the fog and leave into it, so the list never has a hard top or bottom.
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-webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, transparent, black 15%, black 85%, transparent);- HG-1962-003Encephalartos woodiiWood's cycadPalm House
- HG-1987-014Victoria amazonicaGiant waterlilyLily Tank
- HG-1911-201Dicksonia antarcticaSoft tree fernFernery
- HG-1974-058Welwitschia mirabilisTree tumboArid Wing
- HG-2003-117Nepenthes rajahGiant pitcher plantOrchid Loft
- HG-1998-040Amorphophallus titanumTitan arumPalm House
- HG-1955-009Lodoicea maldivicaCoco de merPalm House
- HG-2011-302Wollemia nobilisWollemi pineTemperate
- HG-1936-076Angiopteris evectaKing fernFernery
- HG-2019-411Saxifraga longifoliaPyrenean saxifrageAlpine Bench
The walk, end to end
Six houses, one unbroken path.
FerneryFog line, every 40 min
Topiary WalkClipped each May
Arid Wing22 % humidity
Propagation4,200 on heat mats
UnderstoreyNever sees the roof
Palm HouseRaised 1868
The one rule behind the page
Your current mask.
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