Lectures: Mondays, 6.30pm
Venue: Jodrell Laboratory Lecture Theatre, Kew
Jodrell Gate Entrance Map
Admission: £3 (£16 season ticket)

Tickets sold on the evening, on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note we do not take advance bookings.

Monday 17 September
'Kew Rocks: Joseph Hooker as a Geologist'
Sir Peter Crane, Professor, University of Chicago

Monday 24 September
'A Glimpse at Rio’s Bromeliads'
Scott Taylor, Kew Diploma Student
Travel Scholarship Lecture

Monday 1 October
'Japanese Gardens in Tokyo and Kyoto'
Wolfgang Bopp, Curator, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens

Monday 8 October
'Exotic Gardening with Exotic Animals'
Tim Miles, Head Gardener, Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens

Monday 15 October
'Insects: From Taxonomists to Pests'
Professor Monique Simmonds, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Monday 22 October - CHANGE (due to illness)
Was '50 yrs of Garden Design', John Bookes MBE
Now 'Botanising trip to Turkey?'
Joseph Atkin, 2nd year diploma student

Monday 29 October
'Restoring Hidcote back to Johnston'
Glyn Jones, Head Gardener, Hidcote Manor Garden

Monday 5 November
'Do Horticultural Plantings Have Ecology?'
James Hitchmough, Professor of Horticultural Ecology, Dept. of Landscape, University of Sheffield

Monday 12 November
'A Plantsman’s Life'
Roy Lancaster, Plantsman

Monday 19 November - CHANGE
Was 'Advenures in Brazil'
Joe Robins, 1st year Diploma Student
Travel Scholarship Lecture
Now 'Visiting the Amazon of Lowland Peru'
1st Kew Diploma Student, Joe Robbins will be talking about his experiences in tropical Peru.

Monday 26 November
'Diamonds, Plants and Prohibited Areas'
Vicky Whaley, Kew Diploma Student

Monday 3 December
'Our Ancient Trees: the Last Remaining Remnants of Europe’s Great Wood Pasture'
Ted Green, MBE, English Nature Consultant for the Crown Estates and Windsor Great Park

Monday 10 December
'Butterflies and Bees, Monkeys and Ladies: Evolutionary Studies in British Orchids'
Professor Richard Bateman, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Monday 7 January
'Aberglasney Gardens: The Restoration of an Elizabethan Garden for the 21st Century'
Graham Rankin, Director, Aberglasney

Monday 14 January
'Conserving the Plants of the UK Overseas Territories'
Martin Hamilton, Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Monday 21 January
'Investigating Amenity Gardens Across Britain'
Samantha Harvey, Kew Diploma Student
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Monday 28 January
'Feeding People is Easy'
Colin Tudge, Science Writer

Monday 4 February
'Organic Gardening with Garden Organic'
Pauline Pears, Horticultural Editor, Garden Organic

Monday 11 February
'Peru: Horticulture Combating Desertification'
Sandra King, Kew Diploma Student
Travel Scholarship Lecture

Monday 18 February
'Making Modern Gardens'
Christopher Bradley-Hole, Garden Designer

Monday 25 February
'Plants in Modern Medicine'
Matthew Biggs, Broadcaster and Author
A special fundraising night with an exhibition on plants in medicine. £4 members, £8 non-members. All funds go towards students' Spanish Fieldtrip.

Monday 3 March
'Conservation in the shadow of the volcano'
James Beattie, Kew Diploma Student
Travel Scholarship

Monday 10 March
'Chiswick House Kitchen Garden'
Dr Karen Liebreich, Project Co-ordinator, Chiswick House Kitchen Garden Association

Monday 17 March
'Green Roofs for Sustainable Cities'
Aude de Liedekerke, Kew Diploma Student
Travel Scholarship Lecture

Monday 31 March
'Botanical Basket Making'
Kay Johnson, Author and Basket Maker

Monday 7 April
'Looking for the Contemporary in the Suburban'
Diarmuid Gavin, Garden Designer

Monday 14 April
'Brazil: Amazon to the Pantanal'
Lisa Campbell, Kew Diploma Student
Travel Scholarship Lecture

KMIS (Kew Mutual Improvement Society)
c/o School of Horticulture
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Richmond
Surrey
TW9 3AB

Email: kmis@kew.org