School of Horticulture - Kew Diploma

Facilities

The School of Horticulture occupies a large Decimus Burton converted, eighteenth-century, Grade II listed building within the gardens which has recently been converted into a modern educational centre. It now provides fully-equipped lecture rooms, design studio, library, laboratory, computer suite, common room, kitchen, and administrative offices. The adjacent 200-seater lecture theatre in the Jodrell Laboratory is used for major conferences and seminars. Students also have access to the extensive resources of the Royal Botanic Gardens, including the main library which has one of the finest collections of botanical books, journals and archives in the world.

Lectures are delivered by a balance of internal Kew experts and external specialists in the class room or on study tours in the UK or overseas.

A limited amount of student residential accommodation is available at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. This is normally provided to first year students in Gumley Cottage, an early eighteenth century Georgian dwelling with it’s own private garden, located at the southern end of the garden opposite the picturesque Kew Green. Gumley Cottage is also close to all local amenities and is a seven minute walk from Kew Bridge overland station and five minutes from Kew Gardens tube station, both of which provide quick and direct access to central London stations. Those students who do not gain a place in this accommodation should make their own arrangements, via the School of Horticulture whose staff can assist with providing an approved network of local addresses and rented properties.

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