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Welcome to the Student Vegetable Plots!

by: Jack Clutterbuck, Incredibles Food blog
24 May 2013

Over the next few months you will find regular updates from the newest batch of Kew Diploma students, all about our very own 1.8 x 8 meter area of royal soil, and hopefully, all about the earthy fruit and vegetables that we have managed to grow.

Celebrating the launch of JSTOR Global Plants

by: Kat Harrington, Library, Art and Archives blog
24 May 2013

Kew's unique Directors' Correspondence collection is being made available digitally through a new collaborative website, JSTOR Global Plants.

Bluebells in Kew's natural area

by: Anthony Hall, Arboretum team blog
23 May 2013

Few floral sights in late spring can better a mass of bluebells carpeting a woodland floor.

Photo of Galanthus nivalis capsules

A new typology of seed development in late winter-flowering temperate woodland plants

23 May 2013

Research at the Millennium Seed Bank (RBG Kew) and the University of Reading has identified a new typology of seed development.


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The Tropical Plant Identification Course

by: Lee Davies, Herbarium blog
22 May 2013

Each year several of the Herbarium botanists organise and run a Tropical Plant Identification Course.

Photo of scots pine cone

Study finds sixty percent of UK species in decline

22 May 2013

Kew has contributed to a groundbreaking report on the state of wildlife in the UK in time for International Day of Biological Diversity. It reveals that 60% of species studied have declined over recent decades.


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Conserving Darwin's Letters

by: Eleanor Hasler, Library, Art and Archives blog
17 May 2013

Discover more about the conservation work carried out on one of the most important, popular and fascinating collection in the Archives.

hamster searching for seed

What are hard seeds for?

14 May 2013

A new hypothesis has been proposed on why some seeds are hard.


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How to Create a “Slab-Planted” Bonsai

by: Richard Kernick, Bonsai blog
13 May 2013

Richard, Kew’s bonsai specialist, and renowned bonsai expert Nobuyuki Kajiwara look into the process of creating a “slab-planted” Japanese white pine bonsai.

Photo of a bee on a coffee flower

Caffeine enhances bee memory

10 May 2013

Caffeine in the nectar of coffee and citrus flowers manipulates the memory of pollinating bees.


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