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Conservation of Fortune's Chinese tree portraits

By: Emma Le Cornu - 30 Apr 2012

Read about the conservation work which has been carried out on some beautiful watercolour tree portraits from Kew's Illustrations collection.


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Launching a Plant Conservation Task Force for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands

By: Colin Clubbe - 09 Jul 2012

A major outcome of a one-week plant conservation workshop hosted by the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, is the establishment of a Plant Conservation Task Force for Puerto Rico and the US and British Virgin Islands. The overall goal of the Task Force is to protect and sustain the native plant diversity of the Puerto Rican Bank.


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On the murder of Dr Charles Budd Robinson

By: Charlotte Rowley - 20 Sep 2012

Read about the death of enthusiastic plant hunter Dr Charles Budd Robinson in Ambon, as told by the murder report in Kew's archives, and learn why miscommunication can be deadly.


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Introducing the new Archives Graduate Trainee

By: Elisabeth Thurlow - 29 Oct 2012

Read about the first few weeks of our new trainee and the story behind the travels of Kew's Japanese Gateway


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On Wallace and sago cakes

By: Bill Baker - 03 Apr 2013

In this guest post Bill Baker, a palm expert at Kew, reports on a culinary connection between botanists past and present


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Archives 'Take Flight'

By: Hannah Jenkinson - 22 Jan 2010

Read about archives that might take off! Find out more about some of the fantastic documents and illustrations we have in the collection at Kew.


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Colombian curiosities in the Directors' Correspondence at Kew

By: Virginia Mills - 01 Feb 2010

Read about Robert Blake White's travels in Colombia, the ancient artefacts he collected and the ideas he picked up about gardening in synchronisation with the phases of the moon.


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The Chilean blue crocus, a real eyeful - and it's not a crocus!

By: Sue Skinner - 28 Feb 2011

Once thought extinct in the wild, the stunning blue-flowered Chilean blue crocus was rediscovered in the Andes near Santiago, Chile, in spring 2001. You can see it flowering now in the Davies Alpine House.


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Tony visits the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens and mountains of southern Spain

By: Tony Hall - 09 Mar 2011

Follow Tony Hall, Manager of the Arboretum at Kew, on his visit to the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens. See the new rock garden they are creating and look at the wonderful array of wild Narcissus, orchids and spring flowering shrubs in the mountains of southern Spain.


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From Chelsea to Mount Fuji, the legacy of Veitch Nurseries

By: Virginia Mills - 20 May 2011

Harry Veitch brought the RHS flower show to Chelsea. His brother brought Japanese flora to Europe. Find out more about the Veitch's from Kew's Directors' Correspondence collection.


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Freezing Ascension's rare ferns for the future

By: Ed Jones - 25 Aug 2011

Ed Jones has just spent a year working with Kew's Conservation Biotechnology team investigating different methods of conserving several of the threatened ferns unique to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic.

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