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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.
Desert flowers bloom
By: Richard Wilford - 07 Sep 2011Despite the far from Australian summer we have had in the UK, the plants in the Australia Landscape outside the British Museum have flourished. Some of the most colourful come from the driest parts of Australia.
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Big changes for names of algae, fungi, plants and plant fossils
By: Maria Vorontsova - 07 Sep 2011Botanists throw away the printing press and cancel Latin classes.
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Alpine travels in Armenia (part three)
By: Kit Strange - 25 Aug 2011Kit Strange from Kew's Alpine team continues her travels in Armenia, this time discovering food from the mountains.
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Freezing Ascension's rare ferns for the future
By: Ed Jones - 25 Aug 2011Ed Jones has just spent a year working with Kew's Conservation Biotechnology team investigating different methods of conserving several of the threatened ferns unique to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.
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Curse of the bamboo flower
By: Charlotte Rowley - 22 Aug 2011A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true.
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Conservators care for tapa cloth at Kew
By: Daniel Barter & Cristina Liria - 15 Aug 2011Two conservation students from Camberwell College of Arts have spent three weeks surveying barkcloth specimens from the Pacific.
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Seed conservation in the UK Overseas Territories
By: Tom Heller - 15 Aug 2011Find out about Kew's seed collecting activities in the UK Overseas Territories. Through their seed banking work, Kew’s UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) team are helping to conserve plant life in many diverse and fragile habitats in these regions.
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Behind closed doors - Kew's conservation studio
By: Sarah Cox - 10 Aug 2011In her farewell post, Sarah blogs about her final project at Kew, during which she gets a backstage pass to the conservation studio for a day!
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Introducing the bonsai collection at Kew Gardens
By: Richard Kernick - 10 Aug 2011In his first post, Kew's resident bonsai specialist, Richard Kernick, introduces the bonsai collection at Kew Gardens. Find out more about the history of this unique collection, learn how the trees arrived at Kew and take a look behind the scenes.
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The mysterious hanging diagrams of Museum No. 2
By: Caroline Cornish - 09 Aug 2011One of Kew's PhD students investigates the beautiful posters that once hung in Kew's museums.
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What are hard seeds for?
14 May 2013
A new hypothesis has been proposed on why some seeds are hard.
Caffeine enhances bee memory
10 May 2013
Caffeine in the nectar of coffee and citrus flowers manipulates the memory of pollinating bees.
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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