Kew Press Release Archive
Please see below for key press releases from Kew and Wakehurst Place. If there is a press release you require which is not available here, please contact pr@kew.org
2009
Kew
- 21 Dec Kew scientists discover over 250 new plant species in Kew's 250th anniversry
- 11 Dec Appointment of Queen's Trustee to Kew Board
- 04 Dec Scientists think 'Killer Petunias' should join ranks of carnivorous plants
- 02 Dec Head of Restoration Ecology announced
- 02 Dec Kew's New Scent
- 02 Dec Kew Gardens among top UK landmarks now available on Google Street View
- 13 Nov Response from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on TEEB report
- 22 Oct Kew's Millennium Seed Bank partnership 'top banana' as it celebrates banking 10% of the world's wild plant species
- 22 Oct As easy as APG III - Scientists revise the system of classifying flowering plants
- 22 Oct Marianne North Gallery reopens in Kew's 250th year
- 29 Jul Cycad re-potted in Kew's 250th year
- 16 Jul Defra Review of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- 30 Jun Kew's Millennium Seed Bank at Shanghai Expo 2010
- 29 Jun RBG Kew statement on outcomes of Maputo meeting
- 15 Jun Marianne North Gallery - restored and conserved for Kew's 250th
- 15 May Kew Foundation appoints new trustees - Mick and Barbara Davis
- 08 May New species of ancient plant group dicovered in South Africa
- 01 May The Kew foundation appoints new trustee to the board
- 29 Apr Great Plant Hunt week
- 22 Apr Queen's visit to celebrate Kew's 250th
- 21 Apr Dan Cruickshank - BBC documentary on Kew's 250th
- 23 Mar Banking on life: The story of RBG Kew's Millennium Seed Bank partnership
- 12 Feb The Great Plant Hunt - Kew launches the world's longest recruitment campaign
- 29 Jan Kew appoints landscape architect
- 12 Jan Kew's fungi collection mushrooms to over 1 million specimens in its 250th anniversary year
- 05 Jan Kew goes in search for the next Darwin
Wakehurst Place
- 15 Dec Winter warmers at Wakehurst Place
- 02 Dec 'The Big Switch On' - see the country's tallest Christmas tree lit up
- 12 May Become a junior plant hunter at Kew's country estate this half term
- 12 May Special welcome for centenarians
- 06 May Seeds go platinum and gold for new exhibition at Wakehurst Place
- 06 May Celebrating Kew's 250th anniversary at Wakehurst Place
