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An Introduction to the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art
by: The Gallery Team, Library, Art and Archives blog12 Jul 2010
Read about the Shirley Sherwood Gallery at Kew, the world's first continuously open gallery dedicated to botanical art.
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When business leaders meet botanists
by: Mike Saunders, Business Inspired by Nature blog06 Jul 2010
Find out what happened when we decided to invite a diverse group of business leaders to Kew for the day – mixing business people with botanists.
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Coming home - Plant collecting in South Africa in the 1800s
by: Michele Losse, Library, Art and Archives blog30 Jun 2010
In the first installment of a two part blog, find out more about Kew's history of plant collecting in South Africa.
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Crossing continents - The next phase of digitisation
by: Helen Hartley, Library, Art and Archives blog18 Jun 2010
Read 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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Cactus conservation in Bolivia
15 Jun 2010
Providing scientific support for conservation in Bolivia’s dry inter-Andean valleys.
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South Africa fever
by: Christina Harrison, Kew magazine blog14 Jun 2010
As the World Cup kicks off, Kew continues to celebrate the natural wonders of this amazing country.
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Become a Kew Patron
14 Jun 2010
Do you want to become more involved with Kew and make a real difference?
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About 'Business Shaped By Nature'
by: Mike Saunders, Business Inspired by Nature blog07 Jun 2010
Learn how some of Kew's world-leading plant experts have come together with thought-leaders at Biomimicry for Creative Innovation (BCI) to see if we can help organisations make nature work harder for them.
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Making order out of chaos - Cataloguing the Rose-Innes papers
by: Hannah Jenkinson, Library, Art and Archives blog04 Jun 2010
Read about the process of cataloguing a recent accession.
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World's smallest waterlily brought back from the brink of extinction at Kew
18 May 2010
Kew’s top propagation ‘code-breaker’, horticulturist Carlos Magdalena, has cracked the enigma of growing a rare species of African waterlily. The 'thermal’ lily (Nymphaea thermarum) is believed to be the smallest waterlily in the world, with pads that can be as little as 1 cm in diameter.
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What are hard seeds for?
14 May 2013
A new hypothesis has been proposed on why some seeds are hard.
Caffeine enhances bee memory
10 May 2013
Caffeine in the nectar of coffee and citrus flowers manipulates the memory of pollinating bees.
Is our daily cup of coffee under threat?
08 Nov 2012
A new study from Kew suggests that Arabica coffee could be extinct in the wild within 70 years.
Director (CEO and Chief Scientist) of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to return to Australia
14 Sep 2011
The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew announced today that Director (CEO and Chief Scientist), Professor Stephen Hopper FLS will step down in autumn 2012 after six years in the job.
