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Taking your time
by: Philip Smith, International Garden Photographer blog06 Jun 2012
Philip Smith considers his recent workshops and lectures on the theme of ‘Better Plant and Garden Photography’ and notes that photography, like coffee, is better if it's not instant.
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David Nash sculptures arrive in the Gallery
by: Joanne Seaton, Library, Art and Archives blog01 Jun 2012
Read about the Gallery Team's exciting preparations for the David Nash exhibition.
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Mapping the Harapan Rainforest - how we did it
by: Jenny Williams, GIS team blog24 May 2012
Find out how Kew's GIS unit used remote sensing and field work to produce vegetation maps for the Harapan Rainforest Project.
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Visiting botanic gardens in the southern hemisphere
by: Anthony Hall, Arboretum team blog22 May 2012
With the weather being so unseasonably cold in the UK recently, I thought I'd share with you some botanical warmth down under with the highlights of botanic gardens in Sydney, Perth and Singapore.
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Highlights from Kew's 'Capturing Spring' photo challenge
22 May 2012
Throughout March and April 2012, we invited members of our 'Your Kew' and 'Natural Neighbourhood' Flickr groups to take part in our 'Capturing Spring' photo challenge. With many great photos being taken and shared, we invited Philip Smith, Director of the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition, to pick his favourites.
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Launching the UKOTs Online Herbarium
by: Sara Barrios, UK Overseas Territories team blog22 May 2012
We are bringing the unique and amazing plants that grow in the UKOTs, including those from the Caribbean, a little closer to you in celebration of International Day of Biological Diversity. Just a shame we can't bring the Caribbean weather too!
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A summer of new experiences
by: Christina Harrison, Kew magazine blog17 May 2012
There will be plenty of new experiences to be had at Kew this summer - from appreciating intriguing sculptures to discovering lost Georgian kitchens. You can find out much more about them all in Kew magazine.
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Putting the Economic Botany Collection online
by: Mark Nesbitt, Economic Botany blog16 May 2012
Regular readers will have noticed a long pause since my last blog post. That's because we've been working hard on getting the Economic Botany Collection online.
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Formosa and Mycology... Cataloguing Kew's Archives
by: Stephanie Rolt, Library, Art and Archives blog16 May 2012
Read about the papers of William Price and Arthur Pearson that have recently been catalogued by our Archives Graduate Trainee, Steph.
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Pine pests on the Turks and Caicos Islands
15 May 2012
Scientists are studying the insects causing the decline of the Caribbean pine on Turks and Caicos and searching for chemical markers for unhealthy trees.
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fanged pitcher plant
The sharp ‘fangs’ of Nepenthes bicalcarata were once thought to injure tarsiers that came to steal prey from the pitchers!
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