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.
Library display celebrates digitisation landmark
by: Virginia, Library, Art and Archives blog09 Nov 2012
To mark the completion of the latest phase of the Directors' Correspondence Digitisation Project, a display has been prepared in Kew's Library Reading Room to showcase the collection. The display includes 19th and 20th century letters from botanists, travellers and directors of botanic gardens across Asia, as well as photos, illustrations and plant products they sent to Kew with their letters.
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Introducing the new Archives Graduate Trainee
by: Elisabeth Thurlow, Library, Art and Archives blog29 Oct 2012
Read about the first few weeks of our new trainee and the story behind the travels of Kew's Japanese Gateway
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The fruits of autumn at Kew Gardens
by: Anthony Hall, Arboretum team blog17 Oct 2012
Autumn is a great time to see fruits and seeds, and Kew's Arboretum has a fantastic array from temperate areas around the world. Some are amazingly colourful and they come in all shapes and sizes too.
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Announcing your favourite David Nash at Kew sculpture
08 Oct 2012
What's your favourite David Nash at Kew sculpture? We announce the results of our poll and shared the outcome with David himself for his thoughts and reaction.
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David Nash explores Kew's collections
05 Oct 2012
As part of his residency in Kew Gardens, David Nash has had the chance to explore some priceless scientific collections and take a closer look at trees.
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Reminiscences from a year at Kew
by: Debora Hodgson, Library, Art and Archives blog28 Sep 2012
Read Debora’s final blog post as she leaves Kew to begin a Masters course in Library Science.
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Highlights from Kew's 'Essence of Summer' photo challenge
20 Sep 2012
Throughout summer 2012, we invited members of our 'Your Kew' and 'Natural Neighbourhood' Flickr groups to take part in our 'Essence of summer' photo challenge. Once again we received many great photos, and Philip Smith, Director of the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition was on hand to pick his favourites.
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‘If you can paint one leaf you can paint the world’
by: Dr. Shirley Sherwood, Library, Art and Archives blog07 Sep 2012
In this latest post from the gallery, Dr Shirley Sherwood shares how she curated her current exhibition: Portraits of Leaves and Fungi, paintings from the Shirley Sherwood Collection.
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Kew's Library celebrates the Olympics
by: Fiona Ainsworth, Library, Art and Archives blog29 Aug 2012
A special Olympic-themed display has just been completed in the Library Reading Room.
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Pretty in pink
by: Christina Harrison, Kew magazine blog21 Aug 2012
There are some fabulous flowering trees putting on a great show right now at Kew, including one mysterious bright pink head turner...
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