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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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Finding new plants on Montserrat
By: Marcelo Sellaro & Anna Haigh - 04 Oct 2011During a recent field trip to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, two members of Kew staff discovered plant species which had not previously been known to occur on the island.
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Sir Joseph Hooker and the UK Overseas Territories
By: Pat Griggs - 09 Dec 2011On the 100th anniversary of the death of one of the greatest botanists of the Victorian era, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, find out about the unique plants that he encountered on his visits to the UKOTs and how this experience influenced his theories on plant distribution, which he later shared with Charles Darwin.
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Travel the world and explore the past at Kew
By: Stephanie Rolt - 19 Jan 2012Discover the wealth of documents held at Kew’s Archives which can help us to create a picture of the lifestyles of travellers and explorers in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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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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