green linear-leafed plant

Deep inside the brutalist concrete complex of the Barbican center lies one of my favourite botanical retreats in London to come and explore and to cleanse away all traces of urban life. The Barbican conservatory is a tropical home to fish and over 2,000 species of exotic plants and trees and one of London’s best natural oasis. This Tillandsia Ionanthasite sits perfectly on a nest of Spanish moss ( Tillandsia Usneoides) and you’d be forgiven to think we were somewhere in Mexico or eastern United States, where these plants are native to.