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New trees for Kew's historic vistas

By: Tony Hall - 29 Apr 2013

The 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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From South Africa to the UK

By: Steve Ruddy - 05 Mar 2010

Steve posts about shipping plants from South Africa to the UK and his anxiety for their safe arrival.


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Meet Kew's Alpine & Rock Garden Team

By: Richard Wilford - 20 Sep 2010

Meet the team who will be writing the Alpine and Rock Garden blog and find out about the areas of Kew Gardens that they look after.


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Tapa cloth and the forgotten women of the Bounty mutiny

By: Mark Nesbitt - 30 Sep 2010

A visitor to Kew sheds light on tapa cloth made 170 years ago by her Polynesian forebears.


RSS Feed for the blog Library, Art and Archives blog

The 'tanghin ordeal'

By: Charlotte Rowley - 20 Oct 2010

Read about the toxic plant used in poison ordeals in Madagascar as described by the botanist Charles Telfair in 1829.


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Settling into the Archives: catch up with our budding archivist

By: Sarah Cox - 17 Dec 2010

Kew's Archives Graduate Trainee, Sarah, blogs about her fascinating work and the new skills she is gaining three months in.


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Forests and climate change in Latin America

By: William Milliken - 18 Mar 2011

William Milliken explains how Kew’s science programme is helping to address the issues in this part of the world.


RSS Feed for the blog Alpine and Rock Garden team blog

The parasitic purple toothwort, Lathraea clandestina, is flowering now.

By: Richard Wilford & Katie Price - 29 Mar 2011

The purple flowers of the parasitic Lathraea clandestina, known as purple toothwort, mysteriously sprout from the ground in the Woodland Garden.


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Ready for your close-up: getting the most out of macro flower photography

By: Phillip Smith - 15 Apr 2011

We love close-ups of flowers. But they are often a bit out of focus, or not very well lit – just not as exciting as you think they ought to be. How can this be improved?


RSS Feed for the blog Library, Art and Archives blog

Behind closed doors - Kew's conservation studio

By: Sarah Cox - 10 Aug 2011

 In 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!


RSS Feed for the blog Alpine and Rock Garden team blog

The perfect Japanese maple?

By: Katie Price - 25 Oct 2011

The trees in the Woodland Garden provide shade for us to grow a range of woodland plants and bulbs, but they also add their own colour at this time of year. The Japanese maple, Acer palmatum 'Sangokaku', is one of the best.

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A new typology of seed development in late winter-flowering temperate woodland plants

23 May 2013
Research at the Millennium Seed Bank (RBG Kew) and the University of Reading has identified a new typology of seed development.


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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.


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