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Pesticidal plants in Miombo woodlands
02 Nov 2011
Plants used to control pests in Southern and Eastern Africa are being studied to enhance their value to resource-poor farmers in the region.
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Digging through the Directors' Correspondence: Letters from the Archaeologist M. Aurel Stein
by: Virginia Mills, Library, Art and Archives blog02 Nov 2011
Read about our trip to the British Library's International Dunhuang Project, the amazing scrolls discovered by archaeologist M. Aurel Stein, and some of Stein's letters that we recently unearthed from the Kew's Directors' Correspondence archive collection.
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Gwendolyn Anley: a British bonsai pioneer
by: Richard Kernick, Bonsai blog01 Nov 2011
Discover the history behind two of Kew's bonsai trees, and the little-known story of a British bonsai pioneer, Gwendolyn Anley.
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Herbarium specimens document habitat change
26 Oct 2011
Botanists studying Solanum have used herbarium specimens to document vegetation change in Kenya, and have also described three new species.
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An ethnobotanical new year
by: Mark Nesbitt, Economic Botany blog25 Oct 2011
This autumn Kew welcomed the 14th intake of students into the joint University of Kent/Kew MSc in Ethnobotany. In a packed two days the students were introduced to Kew's collections, had an intensive day of plant-collecting, and heard this year's Distinguished Ethnobotanist lecture.
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The perfect Japanese maple?
by: Katie Price, Alpine and Rock Garden team blog25 Oct 2011
The trees in the Woodland Garden provide shade for us to grow a range of woodland plants and bulbs, but they also add their own colour at this time of year. The Japanese maple, Acer palmatum 'Sangokaku', is one of the best.
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A gallery for the nation
by: Sian Davies & Joanne Seaton, Library, Art and Archives blog24 Oct 2011
A new exhibition and a community art project - find out what's coming up next in Kew's galleries!
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A very strange autumn
by: Tony Kirkham, Arboretum team blog21 Oct 2011
Tony Kirkham shares his thoughts and observations on autumn this year - with its record high temperatures, confused plants and the best fruiting season in memory.
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Autumn in the Bonsai House
by: Richard Kernick, Bonsai blog21 Oct 2011
Richard Kernick shows us what's looking good in the Bonsai House - and what we still have to look forward to.
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Can bees meet their nutritional needs in the UK?
18 Oct 2011
A new project is studying the nutrition of bees in the UK in a BBSRC initiative that aims to understand the decline of pollinators in Britain.
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