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Alpine travels in Armenia (part three)
by: Kit Strange, Alpine and Rock Garden team blog25 Aug 2011
Kit Strange from Kew's Alpine team continues her travels in Armenia, this time discovering food from the mountains.
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Freezing Ascension's rare ferns for the future
by: Ed Jones, UK Overseas Territories team blog25 Aug 2011
Ed Jones has just spent a year working with Kew's Conservation Biotechnology team investigating different methods of conserving several of the threatened ferns unique to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.
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Curse of the bamboo flower
by: Charlotte Rowley, Library, Art and Archives blog22 Aug 2011
A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true.
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Sowing the seeds of UK biodiversity - Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank launches UK Native Seed Hub
17 Aug 2011
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew launches the UK Native Seed Hub at the Millennium Seed Bank, Wakehurst – an initiative that draws on the Millennium Seed Bank’s extensive collection of UK native seeds, as well as its horticultural and scientific expertise to support the UK seed industry, conservation groups and other organisations working to restore native plants to the UK countryside.
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Conservators care for tapa cloth at Kew
by: Daniel Barter & Cristina Liria, Economic Botany blog15 Aug 2011
Two conservation students from Camberwell College of Arts have spent three weeks surveying barkcloth specimens from the Pacific.
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Seed conservation in the UK Overseas Territories
by: Tom Heller, UK Overseas Territories team blog15 Aug 2011
Find out about Kew's seed collecting activities in the UK Overseas Territories. Through their seed banking work, Kew’s UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) team are helping to conserve plant life in many diverse and fragile habitats in these regions.
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Behind closed doors - Kew's conservation studio
by: Sarah Cox, Library, Art and Archives blog10 Aug 2011
In her farewell post, Sarah blogs about her final project at Kew, during which she gets a backstage pass to the conservation studio for a day!
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Introducing the bonsai collection at Kew Gardens
by: Richard Kernick, Bonsai blog10 Aug 2011
In his first post, Kew's resident bonsai specialist, Richard Kernick, introduces the bonsai collection at Kew Gardens. Find out more about the history of this unique collection, learn how the trees arrived at Kew and take a look behind the scenes.
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The mysterious hanging diagrams of Museum No. 2
by: Caroline Cornish, Economic Botany blog09 Aug 2011
One of Kew's PhD students investigates the beautiful posters that once hung in Kew's museums.
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Highlights from Kew's 'Different world's' Photo Challenge
09 Aug 2011
Throughout June and July 2011, we invited members of our 'Your Kew' and 'Natural Neighbourhood' Flickr groups to take part in our 'Different world's' Photo Challenge. Philip Smith, Director of the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition, picks his favourites.
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