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.
Last chance to enter IGPOTY 2011
by: Philip Smith, International Garden Photographer blog21 Nov 2011
Have you entered IGPOTY 2011 yet? If not, time is running out. Here, Philip Smith tells you everything you need to know, together with a run through of next year's exhibitions.
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Introducing our new Library Graduate Trainee
by: Debora Hodgson, Library, Art and Archives blog09 Nov 2011
Read about our new Library Graduate Trainee and all that her role entails.
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Fruits and leaves of autumn
by: Tony Hall, Arboretum team blog04 Nov 2011
Tony Hall shares his favourite fruits and leaves from this autumn's show.
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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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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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Thinking of entering International Garden Photographer of the Year 2011?
by: Philip Smith, International Garden Photographer blog17 Oct 2011
International Garden Photographer of the Year has a first prize of £5000 plus other cash prizes - here are some tips to help you net the big one!
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