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Keep up to date with what's happening at Kew, including updates from the teams working in the gardens, and our science and conservation teams working in the UK and around the world. Browse the latest posts below, or use the drop down list to visit your favourite blog for the latest news.
Kew's Library celebrates the Olympics
By: Fiona Ainsworth - 29 Aug 2012A special Olympic-themed display has just been completed in the Library Reading Room.
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‘If you can paint one leaf you can paint the world’
By: Dr. Shirley Sherwood - 07 Sep 2012In 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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The Woodland Garden dons its winter coat
By: Katie Price - 27 Nov 2012Shifting 20 tonnes of bracken mulch will reap rewards in the year to come
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Introducing the (not quite) new Assistant Archivist
By: Lorna Cahill - 24 Jan 2013Meet Kew's new Assistant Archivist, Lorna, and learn about the volunteering projects she manages and how she began her own career volunteering in Kew's Archives
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Monstrous deliciousness and devilish fruit - Kew's edible aroids
By: Louisa Hall - 14 Mar 2013Not many people have heard of edible aroids yet they are among the oldest cultivated crops in the world. Tropical Nursery horticulturalist Louisa Hall introduces some of these exotic species.
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Introducing the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition
By: Philip Smith - 15 Apr 2010Find out about the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition and how you can get involved. It's the world’s premier competition for garden plant and flower photography.
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Reliving Kew’s Museum of Economic Botany
By: Caroline Cornish - 13 May 2010Kew's Economic Botany collection was originally housed in four buildings scattered across the Gardens. What survives of these, and what do they tell us about visitor experiences in the past? A doctoral student from Royal Holloway, University of London, went exploring...
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Tying orchids onto bark
By: Nick Johnson - 01 Sep 2010The team leader of Kew's Orchid Unit shows how we look after these fantastic epiphytes and divulges the secret of nylon tights in helping some orchids grow.
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C.S.P. Parish and the orchids of Burma
By: Katherine Harrington - 27 Apr 2011The Directors' Correspondence Team reveals the artistic talents of an amateur orchid enthusiast in Burma at the end of the nineteenth century.
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The Rock Garden in full bloom
By: Richard Wilford - 21 Apr 2011The recent warm, sunny weather here in London has brought a whole range of plants into flower on the Rock Garden at Kew. Read on to see some of the highlights.
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Summer in the Alpine House
By: Richard Wilford - 03 Aug 2011The main flowering season for alpine plants is spring, but there are many mountain plants that flower in summer. You can see plenty of these now in the Davies Alpine House. But why do they flower now?
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Elderflower surprise
10 Jun 2013
Scientists at Kew Gardens have discovered compounds new to science in ordinary elderflower drinks.
Speciation systems on Lord Howe Island
06 Jun 2013
Lord Howe Island provides evidence in plants for the ‘syngameon hypothesis’ of adaptive evolution.
Olympic rings spectacular unveiled
18 Apr 2012
A floral spectacular is in bloom in front of the Orangery at Kew Gardens to celebrate the London 2012 Olympic Games.
David Attenborough's Kingdom of Plants 3D now available on DVD and Blu-ray
13 Mar 2012
Filmed over the course of a year at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Kingdom of Plants 3D provides a fascinating new look at plant life using stunning 3D time-lapse filming techniques. Own your personal copy today following the DVD and Blu-ray release.
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