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Over 250 Marianne North painting 'Adopters' celebrate the Gallery restoration
15 Apr 2011
Opened in 1882, the Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens has been fully restored, at a cost of £3.7 million.
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Ready for your close-up: getting the most out of macro flower photography
by: Phillip Smith, International Garden Photographer blog15 Apr 2011
We love close-ups of flowers. But they are often a bit out of focus, or not very well lit – just not as exciting as you think they ought to be. How can this be improved?
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Pitcairn plant flowers at Kew
by: Marcella Corcoran, UK Overseas Territories team blog13 Apr 2011
Although extinct in the wild, Abutilon pitcairnense from Pitcairn has just flowered at Kew Gardens for the first time.
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Kew's latest field expedition to the Brazilian Amazon
by: William Milliken, Herbarium blog12 Apr 2011
Watch the video and discover the reality of tropical fieldwork! Kew's Tropical America team and Brazilian counterparts explore a remote corner of the Amazon, providing important baseline information for conservation planning and management.
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Kew Fund: Chocolate, Rainforests and Conservation
12 Apr 2011
Cacao (Theobroma cacao), the plant that gives us chocolate, is just one of many rainforest plant species which are grown and used by people. Find out how Kew's work is helping to protect this species in South America.
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Seeds and stress
11 Apr 2011
A new stress concept for seeds raises awareness of the challenges scientists face in researching stress associated with changing environments.
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Millennium Seed Bank seeds for Angola
11 Apr 2011
On a recent trip to Angola, UK Minister for Africa, Henry Bellingham MP, presented tree seeds from the Millennium Seed Bank to the Agostinho Neto University in Luanda.
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Creating pathways and our first delivery!
by: Steve Ruddy & Richard Wilford, Kew at the British Museum blog07 Apr 2011
Learn how we prepared the pathways in the Landscape before the first of our deliveries arrived.
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Kew's projects in Bolivia
05 Apr 2011
In Bolivia Kew has been working with local partners to identify conservation priorities, to support the development of protected areas and to catalogue the extraordinary diversity of the country's Compositae (daisy) family.
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Appointment of Trustees to the Board of Trustees, the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), Kew
01 Apr 2011
Lord Henley has appointed Mrs Tessa Green and Professor Michael Crawley to the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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