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Itinerary tips for a summer visit to Kew Gardens

By: Imogen Dent - 27 Mar 2013

If you’re planning a summer group trip, don’t miss out on Kew's main highlights or the hidden delights.


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Celebrating David Livingstone's Bicentenary

By: Lorna Cahill - 19 Mar 2013

To celebrate the bicentenary of African explorer David Livingstone, the Archives team reveal his connection to Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, and how you can see more of his letters online.


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15 minutes of fame - bonsai in the spotlight

By: Richard Kernick - 18 Mar 2013

Last year Liam, Tom and Lee from “The Journal of Wild Culture” came to visit Kew Gardens to photograph the bonsai collection for an article in their debut issue. Now the issue has been published and we can all enjoy the results.


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Your iPad as a window on Kew

By: Christina Harrison - 15 Mar 2013

Our spring issue of Kew magazine is out now, and it’s not on its own due to the magazine going all appy on iTunes.


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Monstrous deliciousness and devilish fruit - Kew's edible aroids

By: Louisa Hall - 14 Mar 2013

Not 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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Discovering David Douglas through the Directors' Correspondence

By: Charlotte Rowley - 13 Mar 2013

Read extracts from the letters of David Douglas in the Directors' Correspondence, and learn more about this remarkable plant-hunter and explorer.


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A short guide to bonsai compost

By: Richard Kernick - 11 Mar 2013

Richard’s short guide to the different types of soil that are used to pot up the bonsai trees here at Kew


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Working together to cultivate and protect Ascension's unique plants

By: Marcella Corcoran - 08 Mar 2013

Ascension Island, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, is home to seven surviving unique plants, many of them threatened with extinction in the wild. Marcella Corcoran reports on a horticultural training workshop for conservationists on the island.


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And the winner is...

By: Philip Smith - 07 Mar 2013

After 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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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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