Living Collections

Plants

The living plant collections at Kew and Wakehurst Place reflect global plant diversity and provide a reference source which serves all aspects of botanical and horticultural science within our organisation. It is probably the largest and most diverse living collection in the world: the variety of conditions available at the two sites allows the development of two differing but complementary collections.

The collections include carnivorous plants, cacti, arboreta, British natives, ferns, palms, grasses, and economic plants.

Seeds

Kew's Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst Place now conserves over 27,000 species as seed samples from at least one population. This equals a stunning 1.6 billion seeds in the bank, with another 1.6 billion conserved in the countries of origin. Find out more about this truly global conservation effort, how it has been done, how it will continue, and what it offers for the long-term benefit of people, plant species and vegetations around the world.

Discover Kew's Millennium Seed Bank partnership

Gardens

Glasshouses