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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.
Flowering now: The giant Madeiran squill
By: Richard Wilford - 17 Nov 2010The giant Madeiran squill (Scilla madeirensis) is flowering in the Davies Alpine House now. Read on to see how we grow this impressive plant.
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The history of working women at Kew
By: Michele Losse - 08 Mar 2011In celebration of International Women's Day, Michele blogs about the employment of women at Kew. The first women gardeners were appointed in 1896.
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A Journey to the 'Land of Many Waters'
By: Sara Albuquerque - 15 Jun 2011Sara Albuquerque updates us on her journey to Guyana, in the footsteps of Sir Everard im Thurm.
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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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Conservation of Fortune's Chinese tree portraits
By: Emma Le Cornu - 30 Apr 2012Read about the conservation work which has been carried out on some beautiful watercolour tree portraits from Kew's Illustrations collection.
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Launching a Plant Conservation Task Force for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
By: Colin Clubbe - 09 Jul 2012A major outcome of a one-week plant conservation workshop hosted by the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, is the establishment of a Plant Conservation Task Force for Puerto Rico and the US and British Virgin Islands. The overall goal of the Task Force is to protect and sustain the native plant diversity of the Puerto Rican Bank.
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On the murder of Dr Charles Budd Robinson
By: Charlotte Rowley - 20 Sep 2012Read about the death of enthusiastic plant hunter Dr Charles Budd Robinson in Ambon, as told by the murder report in Kew's archives, and learn why miscommunication can be deadly.
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Introducing the new Archives Graduate Trainee
By: Elisabeth Thurlow - 29 Oct 2012Read about the first few weeks of our new trainee and the story behind the travels of Kew's Japanese Gateway
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On Wallace and sago cakes
By: Bill Baker - 03 Apr 2013In this guest post Bill Baker, a palm expert at Kew, reports on a culinary connection between botanists past and present
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Archives 'Take Flight'
By: Hannah Jenkinson - 22 Jan 2010Read about archives that might take off! Find out more about some of the fantastic documents and illustrations we have in the collection at Kew.
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Colombian curiosities in the Directors' Correspondence at Kew
By: Virginia Mills - 01 Feb 2010Read about Robert Blake White's travels in Colombia, the ancient artefacts he collected and the ideas he picked up about gardening in synchronisation with the phases of the moon.
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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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