The Eden Project is about mankind's relationship with and dependence upon plants. Much of our food, our clothes, our shelter and our medicines all come from the plant world. Without plants there would be no oxygen for us to breathe no life on earth.

The Eden Project is a showcase for all the questions and many of the answers. But Eden is not a worthy, over - serious guilt ridden place; nor does it preach. It is about education and communication of the major environmental issues of the day always presented in an engaging, involving even humorous way.

Over 100,000 plants representing 5,000 species from many of the climatic zones of the world grow in the Eden Project. Many of these can grow in the mild conditions of Cornwall, others demand greenhouses and that is where Eden's two gigantic conservatories come in. The Humid Tropics Biome - the world's largest greenhouse - is home to the plants of the rainforest - bananas, rubber, cocoa, coffee, teak and mahogany. Whilst the Warm Temperate Biome is filled with the plants of the Mediterranean regions of the world - South Africa, California and the Mediterranean itself. Outside sunflowers, hemp, wheat and a host of other plants from our own region grow.