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We’re a small group of 22. We’re all different ages and have different ideas. We’ve had different careers and educations. We come from different countries and backgrounds, and we all have our own ...
In our latest documentary, ‘ Thinking in Tree Time ’, follow Kevin Martin, Head of Tree Collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and his research partner Henrik Sjöman, as they travel around ...
5 things you didn't know about pomegranates Learn more about the mysterious pomegranate; an important source of food and medicine for thousands of years and the fruit of ancient myths.
Eating and drinking We have a wide variety of cafés and restaurants at Kew Gardens. Look out for seasonal specialties and food foraged from our Gardens. All our cafés and restaurants source seasonal ...
Curtis's Botanical Magazine A long-established academic journal that provides an international forum for botanists and horticulturists, plant ecologists and those with a special interest in botanical ...
Tropical Plant Identification Our botanists share their expertise in identifying plants from the biodiversity-rich tropical regions of the world.
SeedPOD, the Seed Portal for Online Data An exciting new open access digital resource to unlock detailed data on seed collections from wild plant populations and help facilitate their transformation ...
Nature has been the inspiration for many forms of art and literature throughout history. In fact, it inspired the very first photographically illustrated book. Cyanotype photography is a camera-less ...
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew today releases ‘ Our manifesto for change 2021-2030’, a new strategy mapping out its mission and areas of focus for the next decade. The world leading plant science ...
The importance of bees as pollinators Pollination is one of the most important biological processes on our planet. And bees one of the most important pollinators. But what is pollination and why is it ...
Things you should know about Marianne North Meet Marianne North, an intrepid artist of the Victorian era who explored the world.