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Your place in Kew’s history
Kew Gardens is one of the UK’s most significant historic landscapes and a vital part of the country’s national heritage. It represents 250 years of horticultural and botanical discovery and contains many nationally important listed buildings such as the Palm House and Museum No. 1.
The Broad Walk, which links the Main Gate to the Palm House, via the Orangery, is one of the key features of Kew’s Victorian landscape. William Andrews Nesfield, who designed it, was one of the leading landscape architects in Victorian England but the Broad Walk and the surrounding landscape is now one of only a handful of his works which survive anywhere in the UK.
Help Kew restore this important historic landscape
Kew is restoring the Broad Walk landscape, recreating Nesfield’s dramatic vision and adding colourful and exotic features that visitors will be able to enjoy well into the new century.
We already have funding to plant 16 semi-mature cedar trees along the Broad Walk. As they grow they will recreate Nesfield’s scheme - a tree-lined avenue leading visitors from the Main Gate and opening out to reveal the Palm House at the far end.
But we need your help to complete the next stage of our work
Plant more than 30,000 daffodil bulbs in the lawns along each side of the Broad Walk for swathes of spring colour and a permanent reminder of the Friends' 10th Anniversary.
Install 20 large oak planters along the edges of the Broad Walk, from the Main Gate to the Palm House Pond and plant them with exotic species such as palms and cannas during the summer months.
How you can help
Your donation will make an important contribution towards this scheme to bring colourful planting displays to the Broad Walk.
This is your chance to help directly in creating what will become one of Kew’s most significant spring features. We’re going to need all the help we can get planting so many bulbs – all those who donate more than £30 to the Broad Walk Restoration Appeal will be invited to join our bulb-planting team, working alongside Kew’s expert Botanical Horticulturists.
If you would like to mark a family event, or wish to support the Appeal as a group or organisation, why not sponsor one of the planters. 20 planters are available for sponsorship at £2,000 each, which includes the cost of the planter as well as planting and maintenance for five years. In return your name will appear on a plaque on the planter and sponsors will be invited to a special event marking the Broad Walk Restoration.
Download the following Broad Walk restoration appeal form, complete and send it together with your cheque (made payable to Friends of RBG, Kew) or payment details. to:
Broad Walk Restoration Appeal
Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
FREEPOST
Richmond
Surrey TW9 1BR