Exotic Garden (1956)

Streatham, London. A visit to an exotic garden, which has over 20,000 plants from 800 different species. L/S back of suburban house with greenhouse. M/S Ernest Hepworth enters greenhouse and tends to plants. C/U of tiny green European Tree frog hopping about . C/U Hepworth’s hands tending to cacti. M/S Hepworth watering flowers. C/U shots of plants, cacti, succulents and flowers, including the red Epiphyllum, and Lithops, called ’living stones’. C/U mimosa pudica as a hand touches it, and it folds up. M/S sundial with an old boot near it, which have hardy succulents growing over them. Note : The documentation file includes a leaflet and a news cutting. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than