About Nick Johnson

Nick Johnson is the team leader of the Temperate and Conservation collections. Nick has been at Kew for nearly ten years and has worked in the Tropical Nursery for eight of them.

Nick manages a small team that cares for the temperate collections and the increasingly important threatened island flora collections. He provides propagation training to the students in the Nursery and has travelled to some amazing island habitats to assist conservationists in their bid to save endangered plant species.

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Archive for Tropical Nursery blog

• 2013
  • Mar (1)
    • Monstrous deliciousness and devilish fruit - Kew's edible aroids
• 2012
  • Feb (1)
    • Building the Tropical Extravaganza
• 2011
  • Nov (1)
    • The beauty or the beast?
  • Jun (1)
    • Tropical bromeliads in the nursery at Kew
  • May (1)
    • Potting with coir
  • Apr (1)
    • Repotting the Sarracenia collections
  • Jan (1)
    • Discover the show-stopping Nymphaea 'Arc-en-ciel'
• 2010
  • Nov (1)
    • The "Montserrat pribby" (part two)
  • Oct (1)
    • The “Montserrat pribby” (part one)
  • Sep (4)
    • Planting up a succulent display
    • The Tropical Nursery Open Day
    • Tying orchids onto bark
  • Aug (1)
    • Meet Kew's Tropical Nursery horticulturists