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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.
An Introduction to the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art
By: The Gallery Team - 12 Jul 2010Read about the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew, the world's first continuously open gallery dedicated to botanical art.
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Welcome to Kew's UK Overseas Territories programme blog
By: Pat Griggs - 14 Oct 2010Find out about the plants of the UK Overseas Territories and how Kew's UKOTs programme is helping to understand and conserve them.
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The “Montserrat pribby” (part one)
By: Nick Johnson - 22 Oct 2010As a new study shows that world plants are as threatened as mammals, Nick Johnson talks about a plant close to his heart that he is caring for in the Tropical Nursery. Here he describes his expedition, recalling where he saw it in the wild.
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Katie visits Munich's famous alpine garden
By: Katie Price - 03 Nov 2010Reach new heights with Katie Price as she joins Jenny Wainwright Klein, alpine specialist at Munich Botanic Garden, at the famous Alpengarten auf dem Schachen.
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Daisies find a new home in Kew's Herbarium
By: William Milliken - 07 Dec 2010Kew's vast collection of herbarium specimens of the Compositae (daisy) family is now rehoused in pest-free low-temperature storage in the new wing of the Herbarium.
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Eco-fibres old and new
By: Mark Nesbitt - 13 Dec 2010Sustainable fibres are ever more popular with consumers and designers. The Textile Society's recent conference compared historic and contemporary approaches to the subject.
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High Society - the culture and history of mind-altering drugs
By: Mark Nesbitt - 04 Jan 2011Kew's Economic Botany Collection has been a major lender of psychoactive plants to the Wellcome Collection's exhibition 'High Society'.
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Rediscovering the comb fern in the Falkland Islands
By: Pat Griggs - 27 Jan 2011Find out how Kew botanists were able to confirm the identity of the comb fern, a tiny plant believed to be extinct in the Falkland Islands until it was spotted growing on the island of West Falkland more than 180 years after its only previous sighting there.
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Going tropical at Kew
By: Christina Harrison - 04 May 2011You can discover many different plants and habitats at Kew this summer including totally tropical waterlilies. Kew's work on these stunning and ancient flowers is revealed in the upcoming issue of Kew magazine.
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Name that plant! Learning Plant ID skills at Kew
By: Gemma Bramley - 11 May 2011From 9-20 May we're running the RBG Kew Tropical Plant Identification course. Find out how our participants, who have travelled to Kew from all over the world, are getting on.
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Spice up your garden with roscoeas
By: Sue Skinner - 13 May 2011If you want to spice up your garden then take a look at the exotic roscoeas. They are part of the ginger family, but are fully hardy in the UK and flower from now until late summer.
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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.
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.
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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