A day of talks - Growing vegetables, communities and sustainability

Part of incredibles festival 2013

Sat 01 June 2013, 10.30am-5.30pm

In conjunction with this year's IncrEdibles festival, the Kew Mutual Improvement Society (KMIS) is putting on a day of lectures about growing vegetables, and the benefits of doing so for the environment and the community.

Course - Vegetable growing for novices

Join Christine Lavelle, lecturer in horticulture and ecology, on a course designed for novice gardeners who want to improve their vegetable growing skills.

Half term activities - The Sweet Success of Plants

Tue 28 May - Fri 31 May 2013, 10am-3.30 pm

Come to Wakehurst this half-term and discover how many of our well-known sweets are made from plants. Make a sweet treat and a special box to put it in.

Course - Photographing trees

The course is designed to explore ways of producing stunning photographs of trees as well as teaching how to download, store and enhance the digital images taken.

Queen Charlotte's Cottage

In the late 18th century, this thatched cottage was a private haven for Queen Charlotte and her family, a place for secluded royal picnicking and leisure time. Open weekends and Bank Holidays from 10am to 4pm until Sunday 29 September 2013.

Temperate House

The Temperate House is the largest surviving Victorian glasshouse in the world, covering 4,880 square metres (5,850 square yards) and extending to 19 metres (63 feet) high. The Temperate House will be closing in summer 2013, for five years, for vital restoration work to be carried out.

Davies Alpine House

The Davies Alpine House is the latest addition to Kew’s glasshouses. It opened in 2006, the first new glasshouse to be commissioned for two decades. It is located at the north end of the Rock Garden.

Rhododendron Dell

The Rhododendron Dell is believed to date back to Kew’s early days. In around 1734, Charles Bridgeman created a sunken garden on the Richmond Estate (now the western half of Kew).