News from the Gardens at Kew and Wakehurst
Keep up to date with the latest news from the gardens at Kew and Wakehurst. Find out about upcoming festivals, events and activities and get information about new flowerings and garden highlights.
Displaying the letters of Augustine Henry
by: Virginia Mills, Library, Art and Archives blog03 Feb 2012
The Directors' Correspondence team has just put some of the letters of botanist Augustine Henry on display in Kew's Library Reading Room. Find out why we chose him as our subject and how the display brings together material from many of Kew's behind-the-scenes collections.
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Promoting Voices of Oral History in the USA
by: Michele Losse, Library, Art and Archives blog31 Jan 2012
Michele, Assistant Archivist at Kew, blogs about her experiences at the American Oral History Society's annual conference held in Denver, Colorado, last October.
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Kew is recruiting a new Director
After six years at Kew, the current Director (CEO and Chief Scientist), Professor Stephen D. Hopper FLS will be returning to Australia to take up a Chair in Biodiversity at The University of Western Australia.
Travel the world and explore the past at Kew
by: Stephanie Rolt, Library, Art and Archives blog19 Jan 2012
Discover the wealth of documents held at Kew’s Archives which can help us to create a picture of the lifestyles of travellers and explorers in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Antarctic heroes
by: Christina Harrison, Kew magazine blog17 Jan 2012
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the day Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his team reached the South Pole. But did you know that in the Joseph Hooker exhibition at Kew Gardens, you can see a letter from Scott to Sir Joseph Hooker?
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The winter flowering Cyclamen coum
by: Richard Wilford, Alpine and Rock Garden team blog09 Jan 2012
It is said that you can have a cyclamen in flower every month of the year and January belongs to the diminutive Cyclamen coum.
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Understanding colour for photographers
by: Philip Smith, International Garden Photographer blog09 Jan 2012
Philip Smith shows you how your garden and plant photography can benefit from a richer understanding of colour.
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Free events in Kew's Archives this January
by: Kiri Ross Jones, Library, Art and Archives blog06 Jan 2012
Join Kew's archivists to hear botanists’ and plant hunters’ stories about their travels and cultural encounters and go behind-the-scenes in the Archives.
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Fascinating collection of Ray Cowell's illustrations comes to Kew
by: Lynn Parker, Library, Art and Archives blog20 Dec 2011
Read about a new acquisition of illustrations by artist Ray Cowell, who painted fungi in astonishing detail - even including the teeth marks of hungry rodents!
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The holly and the ivy
by: Tony Hall, Arboretum team blog20 Dec 2011
Tony Hall tells tales of holly folklore and describes the amazing variety of colour to be seen along Kew's historic Holly Walk.
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