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Inspiring events at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art 

By: The Gallery Team - 26 Oct 2010

Alongside the three exhibitions we have each year at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, we also hold a variety of inspiring events to support the message behind our exhibitions and highlight other work being carried out by Kew.


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Preparing for an expedition to Ethiopia

By: Tim Harris - 29 Oct 2010

Find out about Tim's preparations for an imminent trip to Ethiopia. The team will work with Kew's partners and research the country's rarest plants.


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Added protection for the seas around the Chagos archipelago

By: Colin Clubbe - 04 Nov 2010

Colin Clubbe from Kew's UK Overseas Territories team reports on the latest news about the newly created Chagos Marine Reserve.


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The "Montserrat pribby" (part two)

By: Nick Johnson - 12 Nov 2010

Nick Johnson explains how a new botanic garden on Montserrat used Rondeletia buxifolia as an alternative hedging plant in the garden to inspire others to follow suit, encouraging the use of island endemics instead of invasives.


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Season's Greetings from the Library, Art & Archives Team

By: David Iggulden - 22 Dec 2010

Merry Christmas and Best Wishes for 2011!


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Inspiration from granite outcrops

By: Steve Ruddy - 21 Mar 2011

Steve Ruddy visits the granite outcrops near Perth in Western Australia to draw inspiration for this year's Landscape at the British Museum.


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Alpine success at Chelsea

By: Richard Wilford - 26 May 2011

Kew's Alpine Nursery sent plants to the Chelsea Flower Show to be shown to the RHS Rock Garden Plant Committee - and three out of four received an award! Read on to see the what caught the Committee's eye.


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Insects and invasives: investigating threats to Turks and Caicos Islands plants

By: Martin Hamilton - 03 Aug 2011

The native plants of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) are under increasing threat from plants and animals that have been introduced to these Caribbean Islands in recent years.  In an effort to understand the biology of the invasive species, a team of Kew botanists and conservationists spent three weeks studying them and investigating the problems they cause.


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Conservators care for tapa cloth at Kew

By: Daniel Barter & Cristina Liria - 15 Aug 2011

Two conservation students from Camberwell College of Arts have spent three weeks surveying barkcloth specimens from the Pacific.


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Last chance to enter IGPOTY 2011

By: Philip Smith - 21 Nov 2011

Have you entered IGPOTY 2011 yet? If not, time is running out. Here, Philip Smith tells you everything you need to know, together with a run through of next year's exhibitions.


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Woods of the World

By: Mark Nesbitt - 30 Oct 2012

Each year we host over 200 researchers in the Economic Botany Collection. It's always a pleasure to see their work making it into print, and no more so than with Adam Bowett's magnificent new book, Woods in British furniture-making 1400-1900.

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