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Free events in Kew's Archives this January
By: Kiri Ross Jones - 06 Jan 2012Join 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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The winter flowering Cyclamen coum
By: Richard Wilford - 09 Jan 2012It 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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Mapping live data and tweets from the field
By: Justin Moat and Steve Bachman - 14 Feb 2012Mapping live data and tweets from the field - experiments with the latest technology 'mashups' in Sumatra.
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Spring arrives in the Alpine House
By: Kit Strange - 01 Mar 2012The last few warm days have brought a lot of bulbs into flower in the Davies Alpine House - from all over the world!
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Swapping seeds in the name of food diversity
By: Vanessa Sutcliffe - 21 Mar 2012Join Vanessa Sutcliffe, Millennium Seed Bank Training Specialist, as she gets ready to organise the next Great Seed Swap taking place at Wakehurst on Saturday 20 October 2012.
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Putting the Economic Botany Collection online
By: Mark Nesbitt - 16 May 2012Regular readers will have noticed a long pause since my last blog post. That's because we've been working hard on getting the Economic Botany Collection online.
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Have you caught Olympic Fever?
By: Christina Harrison - 07 Aug 2012If you've got a bad case of Olympic Fever why not head to Kew to continue to enjoy the spirit of the Games with the wonderful representations of the Olympic Rings and Paralympic logo in flower form? You can also see some of the tallest, oldest, fastest, weirdest and most beautiful plants on the planet right here.
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Reminiscences from a year at Kew
By: Debora Hodgson - 28 Sep 2012Read Debora’s final blog post as she leaves Kew to begin a Masters course in Library Science.
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Everard Im Thurn and the 'lost world'
By: Katherine Harrington - 11 Dec 2012We take a look at the varied career of Everard Im Thurn through his correspondence with the Directors of Kew, and find out about his exploration of the 'lost world' of Mount Roraima in British Guiana.
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Driving home for Christmas?
By: Joanne Yeomans - 21 Dec 2012Discover Marianne North’s travels over Christmases long, long ago
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New trees for Kew's historic vistas
By: Tony Hall - 29 Apr 2013The arboretum team have been out planting some new trees along Kew's historic vistas. This is to ensure they are maintained for generations to come.
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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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