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Kew magazine
AUTUMN 2006
Contents
FEATURES
PROFILE: Cut to the Chase
Gail Vines meets the new keeper of Kew’s Jodrell Laboratory, Professor
Mark Chase
FIELDWORK: High adventure
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(pdf version)
Annette Dalton recounts the ups and downs of a recent collecting expedition
to New Zealand
BIODIVERSITY: Targeted action
What steps are being taken to help conserve UK biodiversity?
Mike Fay explains
BIODIVERSITY: Orchid rescue mission
Mike Fay and Margaret Ramsay focus on Kew’s work to propagate and
re-introduce the rare fen orchid
NEW DEVELOPMENTS: Tracing the Arc
Kew’s director Sir Peter Crane and architect Jim Eyre explain
the elegant logic behind the new circular route through the Gardens
EXHIBITION: The many faces of Kew
Find out who’s who in a series of portraits of Kew staff at work
by photographer Helen Fickling
ALL IN A DAY'S WORK: A nursery education
Leigh Hunt spends a day with the staff and rare plants in the nursery
at Wakehurst Place
KEW ON TV: The trees that made Britain
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(pdf version)
Kew’s Tony Kirkham reveals some favourite moments from the filming
of his popular new tv series
CLIMATE CHANGE: The seeds of change
As the climate warms, the work of the Millennium Seed Bank proves ever
more vital, says Paul Smith
KEW'S COLLECTIONS: Salvias on parade
Richard Wilford checks out
Kew’s vibrant salvia border
HERBIVORE: On the grapevine
Hattie Ellis explores our age-old relationship with the grapevine, plus
recipes by Jane Suthering
REGULARS
IN THIS ISSUE
The editor’s letter
KEW NEWS
Belinda Parry reports on what’s happening at Kew and Wakehurst
CUTTINGS
A round-up of science news
KEW TIPS
Expert advice on growing salvias
KEW PLANTS
Richard Wilford reveals the bird of paradise flower’s links with Kew
TREASURES OF KEW
Simon Owens and Iain Darbyshire tell the fascinating story behind one of Kew’s
most notable Herbarium sheets
WILD KEW
Sandra Bell on how Kew’s colony of wild clary was given a new home
YOUNG KEW
Grow a tree from seed
EVENTS DIARY
What’s on at Kew and Wakehurst
AXIS
Dr Chris Cheffings explains how the loss of UK biodiversity will affect
us