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Magnificent magnolias in the Arboretum at Kew Gardens
By: Tony Hall - 27 Mar 2012The wonderfully showy magnolias are in full flower, many dating back to the early 20th century. Colours range from pure white through to deep pinks with some flowers reaching over 20 cm across.
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Visiting botanic gardens in the southern hemisphere
By: Anthony Hall - 22 May 2012With the weather being so unseasonably cold in the UK recently, I thought I'd share with you some botanical warmth down under with the highlights of botanic gardens in Sydney, Perth and Singapore.
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The 'Christmassy' killer raspberry
By: Wolfgang Stuppy - 11 Dec 2012The Millennium Seed Bank's seed morphologist, Wolfgang Stuppy, is back with his final blog of the year. To wish you all a very 'Merry Christmas', he is sharing some festive images of a flesh-eating killer raspberry! Do you dare read on ...
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Pitcairn plant flowers at Kew
By: Marcella Corcoran - 13 Apr 2011Although extinct in the wild, Abutilon pitcairnense from Pitcairn has just flowered at Kew Gardens for the first time.
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Digging through the Directors' Correspondence: Letters from the Archaeologist M. Aurel Stein
By: Virginia Mills - 02 Nov 2011Read about our trip to the British Library's International Dunhuang Project, the amazing scrolls discovered by archaeologist M. Aurel Stein, and some of Stein's letters that we recently unearthed from the Kew's Directors' Correspondence archive collection.
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Love nuts? Love seeds! But which one is the tastiest of all?
By: Wolfgang Stuppy - 24 Jul 2012After previously exploring colourful, enigmatic, poisonous and sadistic seeds, in his new blog, Wolfgang goes nuts about nuts.
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Crossing continents - The next phase of digitisation
By: Helen Hartley - 18 Jun 2010Read about the recent changes within the Directors' Correspondence digitisation team and the start of our new project - digitising the Directors' Correspondence collection from Asia.
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The beauty or the beast?
By: Marcelo Sellaro - 07 Nov 2011Join Marcelo Sellaro as he explores the fascinating world of the titan arum.
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Fascinating collection of Ray Cowell's illustrations comes to Kew
By: Lynn Parker - 20 Dec 2011Read about a new acquisition of illustrations by artist Ray Cowell, who painted fungi in astonishing detail - even including the teeth marks of hungry rodents!
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Autumn colour - Six of the best
By: Anthony Hall - 12 Nov 2012So many of the trees and shrubs at Kew show outstanding autumn colour that it has been difficult choosing just the best six
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First flowering at Kew for Critically Endangered Montserrat orchid
By: Marcella Corcoran - 30 Jan 2013Dust-like seeds of the orchid Epidendrum montserratense, collected on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, have been germinated and cultivated in carefully controlled conditions at Kew, to produce the first flowers of this species to be seen in the UK.
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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.
What are hard seeds for?
14 May 2013
A new hypothesis has been proposed on why some seeds are hard.
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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