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Food for when all else fails - collect from the wild or cultivate?
by: Tim Harris, Herbarium blog11 Feb 2013
A successful yam cultivation project in Madagascar cannot keep up with demand for cultivated yams.
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The taste of the Amazon
by: Wolfgang Stuppy, Millennium Seed Bank blog09 Nov 2012
This month Kew's Seed Morphologist, Wolfgang Stuppy, brings us a post about his recent adventures in the Amazon. Now safely back in the Millennium Seed Bank, he can share with us news of Cupuaçu; the taste of the Amazon!
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Monitoring the effect of an invasive pine scale insect on the national tree of the Turks and Caicos Islands
by: Sara Green, UK Overseas Territories team blog21 Nov 2011
While an introduced scale insect devastates the Caicos pine in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), Sara Green, a Conservation Science MSc student from Imperial College, London investigated the impact that the insect is having on the tree’s habitat and the effectiveness of different techniques of controlling this pest.
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Conservators care for tapa cloth at Kew
by: Daniel Barter & Cristina Liria, Economic Botany blog15 Aug 2011
Two conservation students from Camberwell College of Arts have spent three weeks surveying barkcloth specimens from the Pacific.
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The mysterious hanging diagrams of Museum No. 2
by: Caroline Cornish, Economic Botany blog09 Aug 2011
One of Kew's PhD students investigates the beautiful posters that once hung in Kew's museums.
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Useful plants just got beautiful
by: Christina Harrison, Kew magazine blog05 Jul 2011
That was one of the main messages of The Times Eureka garden at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show – useful plants should be appreciated for both their beauty and their vital utility.
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A Journey to the 'Land of Many Waters'
by: Sara Albuquerque, Economic Botany blog15 Jun 2011
Sara Albuquerque updates us on her journey to Guyana, in the footsteps of Sir Everard im Thurm.
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Kew's garden at Chelsea is revealed
24 May 2011
Kew's garden at Chelsea Flower Show 2011 showcases the significance of plants to science and society, through an eye-catching and innovative design by Chelsea gold medallist Marcus Barnett. See more photos of the garden on Kew's Flickr page and tell us what you think!
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Kew teams up with The Times for Chelsea 2011
15 Jan 2011
Kew is delighted to announce that it is working in partnership with The Times to create a garden showcasing the significance of plants to science and society, through an eye-catching and innovative design by Chelsea gold medallist Marcus Barnett.
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High Society - the culture and history of mind-altering drugs
by: Mark Nesbitt, Economic Botany blog04 Jan 2011
Kew's Economic Botany Collection has been a major lender of psychoactive plants to the Wellcome Collection's exhibition 'High Society'.
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News from the Gardens
Book of the month - The Story of Kew Gardens in Photographs
08 May 2013
This book tells the fascinating story of Kew Gardens through over two hundred and fifty black and white photographs, many of which have never been seen before.
Auriculas - a most beguiling plant now on sale at Kew Gardens
02 May 2013
Stunning auriculas bred by Chelsea Gold medal award winners William, Joan and Simon Lockyer will be sold in the Victoria Plaza garden shop at Kew Gardens from Friday 3 May 2013. Visit soon as stock is limited.
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.
