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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.
Discover the new Library, Art & Archives Reading Room
By: David Iggulden - 17 Aug 2010Read about the new Library, Art & Archives Reading Room and how it has transformed services for staff and visitors.
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Coming to fruition
By: Philip Smith - 13 Sep 2010This time of year in Northern Europe provides fresh opportunities for photography. But sometimes it's a good idea not to take any photographs at all!
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What do the International Garden Photographer of the Year judges look for?
By: Philip Smith - 01 Oct 2010We are now entering the final phase of the International Garden Photographer of the Year (IGPOTY) competition 2010 and many people will be getting their entries ready for the November 30th deadline. So what are the judges looking for?
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Are you an alpine lover?
By: Christina Harrison - 18 Nov 2010It's winter issue time and this season our horticultural sights are set on some tiny mountain gems.
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The true value of nature
By: Christina Harrison - 20 Dec 2010Biodiversity loss stories do make headlines, but when and how will governments and businesses realise nature's true value and factor it into their accounts?
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The Davies Alpine House, five years on
By: Richard Wilford - 10 Mar 2011The Davies Alpine House is five years old this month. See what changes have been made since it opened on 11 March 2006.
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The Landscape starts to take shape
By: Steve Ruddy & Richard Wilford - 19 Apr 2011As the plants start to form a framework, the rockwork nears completion.
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Seed conservation in the UK Overseas Territories
By: Tom Heller - 15 Aug 2011Find out about Kew's seed collecting activities in the UK Overseas Territories. Through their seed banking work, Kew’s UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) team are helping to conserve plant life in many diverse and fragile habitats in these regions.
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Collecting and growing native plants of the British Virgin Islands
By: Martin Hamilton - 14 Sep 2011Follow two members of Kew's UK Overseas Territories Team as they collect and propagate native plants for the islands' Botanic Garden.
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The plants have arrived
By: Steve Ruddy - 02 May 2012Following the arrival of over 4,000 plants, Steve Ruddy and his team have been busy building the North American Landscape... but weather conditions have made it challenging!
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Conservation at Camberwell
By: Mark Nesbitt - 24 Jul 2012Once again, students at Camberwell College of Arts have breathed life into historical objects – this year, rice paper drawings, an Amazonian shield and a Canadian cradle.
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Elderflower surprise
10 Jun 2013
Scientists at Kew Gardens have discovered compounds new to science in ordinary elderflower drinks.
Speciation systems on Lord Howe Island
06 Jun 2013
Lord Howe Island provides evidence in plants for the ‘syngameon hypothesis’ of adaptive evolution.
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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