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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.
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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And the winner is...
By: Philip Smith - 07 Mar 2013After three long months of judging the International Garden Photographer of the Year competition, the dust is settling and the results are in! Philip Smith considers whether the winning images are 'stunning' - or altogether more interesting than that...
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Bringing Kew's Archive Alive
By: The Trading Consequences Team - 02 May 2013In this guest blog from the Trading Consequences team, find out how digital data produced by Kew's Directors' Correspondence team is being brought to life and can be used to visualise the British Empire's 19th Century trade networks
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Making the most of Library Services at Kew
By: Craig Brough - 18 Feb 2010Read about the Library's Information Services Team and find out how they can help with your questions and curiosities about the world's plant life, plant artefacts and other plant uses such as medicine.
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Study finds sixty percent of UK species in decline
22 May 2013
Kew has contributed to a groundbreaking report on the state of wildlife in the UK in time for International Day of Biological Diversity. It reveals that 60% of species studied have declined over recent decades.
What are hard seeds for?
14 May 2013
A new hypothesis has been proposed on why some seeds are hard.
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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