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Press Release Archive
2005
2004
- Passion: The Irresistible Beauty of Orchids - Orchid Festival 2005
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew’s wreath for remembrance
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to increase adult admission price from February 2005
- Climbers and Creepers - smash hit set to remain open for longer hours!
- Our Glorious Year...
- “Bad Boy of Gardening” to dress Kew Gardens’ Christmas Tree
- Kew Treats Children this Christmas
- Get your stakes on - the ice rink cometh!
- Kew’s Roots: A Historical Perspective of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Fruit Fest! Autumn at Kew
- New Views of Kew book of photos
- New BBC TV Series Reveals ‘behind the scenes’ at Kew
- Blooming Success for Kew Brew
- New Catering Contracts awarded by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Climbers and Creepers is huge fun!
- Kew's Director, Professor Peter R. Crane FRS, awarded knighthood
- The Genus Lavandula
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew wins The Independent Award
- Major Conservation Treaty signed with China
- New Views of Kew – Summer Festival 2004
- Rare Flowering of Giant Spear Lily Doryanthes palmeri (or Queensland Mountain Lily)
- Something’s brewing at Kew…
- Tiptoe through the bluebells - Woodland Wonders at Kew
- A very Victorian passion: The orchid paintings of John Day
- Spring 2004 bulb bonanza
- Climbers & Creepers offers huge fun
- Spring to Life at Kew
- Valentine's Day at Kew
- 2003 Bumper year for Kew
2003
- Kew finds new hope for plant on brink of extinction
- Orchids exposed - Kew's 10th Annual Orchid Festival
- Winter exposed - photographic exhibition
- Lord Selborne succeeds Viscount Blakenham at Kew
- Making Spirits Bright: Christmas 2003 at Kew Gardens
- Be a Badger! At Kew Garden
- Kew gets in a pickle this autumn
- Kew Awarded World Heritage Site Status
- New wild showcase garden for Kew by Mary Reynolds
- Miniature world of pollen revealed at Kew
- Wild Ideas are a winner at Kew
- Emily Young sculpture
- Edwardian herbalist’s pavilion explores medicinal uses of plants at Kew
- Grown Home - radical living willow garden for Kew By Lois Walpole
- Bonsai at Kew reach new heights
- Go Wild this summer
- Time Team uncovers the Royal history of Kew
- Royal Opening for Kew's Nash Conservatory
- Top UK Conservationists Gather to Save World's Plants
- Something's brewing at Kew
- DNA in the garden
- Spring to Life at Kew
- Kew School Explainers team recruits new blood
- In search of paradise - Kew's ninth orchid festival
- New Trustees for Kew
2002
- In Search of Paradise - orchid festival 2003
- Round up of the year - 2003
- Kew library catalogue goes online
- Kew launches net-based electronic Plant Information Centre
- Natural Visions - new work by award - winning wildlife photographer, Heather Angel
- Kew Winter Lecture Series - Heritage at Kew: Past and Present
- Kew's historic Orangery restored
- Kew investigates exotic botanical ingredients in pot-pourri
- Magic and mystery of Christmas plants revealed at Kew
- Making Spirits Bright
- Fungi fascinate at Kew's Autumn festival
- Materia Medica discovery
- KEW'S X-FILE
Without warning something strange happened in a wheatfield at Kew… - The Marsh Christian Award for Botanical
Conservation - Kew announces best visitor figures for a decade
- Two young Kew botanists retrace journey of Joseph Banks on BBC'2s series, The Ship
- Explosion of colour at Kew as 60-metre plantscape reaches gorgeous flowering peak
- Consultants appointed to develop vision for Kew
- Clive Nichols: New Shoots
Sponsored by Canon (UK) - Kew nominated for World Heritage site status
- Waterlilies are centre stage at Kew for summer
- Idea Gardens inspire at Kew this summer
- Time team excavates the Royal history of Kew
- Spectacular emergence of the biggest (and smelliest) flower in the world at Kew
- Colour Sensations at Kew Gardens
1 June - 30 September 2002 - Kew scientists involved in the discovery of new conifer in remote forests of northern Vietnam
- Swing into Summer
- Diaspora Music Village kicks off at Kew Gardens 29 - 30 June 2002
- Return of the Titans
- Spectacular emergence of the biggest (and smelliest) flower in the world at Kew
- Capturing the value of ecosystems
- Vision of nature inspires eco-architecture exhibition at Kew
- Bluebell Time at Kew
- Easter time at Kew
- Spring to life at Kew
- Flower aphrodisiac effect at Kew this Valentine's Day
- Kew Orchid Festival 2002
Beauty in Danger: Orchids at the Edge
2004
- Kew bids to save Manchester landmark…
- 'Winter Exposed' - stunning gallery exhibition
- Banksia flowers outdoors
- Autumn Half Term at Wakehurst Place
- Cabbage tree flowers at Wakehurst Place
- Minister visits Wakehurst Place
- The Big Draw
- Record visitor numbers at Wakehurst Place
- Restaurant re-vamp at top attraction
- Big Draw launched at Wakehurst Place
- Beer in honour of garden’s work
- Rare bats find refuge at Wakehurst Place
- Forrest trail at Kew's country garden
- The Handkerchief Tree (Davidia involucrata) flowers at Wakehurst Place
- Nesting wagtail
- Arts in the garden
- See behind the scenes of the Wakehurst Place nursery on Saturday 8th May.....
- Opening of £2m new visitor centre at Kew's country garden
- Computers to Romania
- Plant Diversity Challenge
- Conferring on a Universal Challenge
- Short course about the winter garden at Wakehurst Place
- The first flowering rhododendron of the year in bloom at Wakehurst Place
2003
- Christmas tree lit up
- Seed bank adapted for schools
- Francis Rose Reserve
- 'Funky Botanica' comes to Wakehurst Place
- Funding boost for Kew’s seed bank
- Kew pioneers African tree project
- Go Wild at Wakehurst Place
- Walks during July and August at Wakehurst Place
- Summer themed tours at Wakehurst Place
- New Head of Wakehurst Place
- Half term fun - 25 and 27 February
- Minute seeds, record numbers
- Bluebell Weekend at Kew's country garden - May 3-5
- Weekend tours of the Loder Valley
- Nursery Open Weekend - May 31/June 1
2002
- Chapel transformation
- Wakehurst Place visitor centre
- Appeal for volunteers
- Bring a bottle - and have some fun!
- Chinese support palm project
- Mansion tours at Wakehurst Place
- Seasonal sensation
- Top NT site is run by Kew
- Seed techniques revealed
- Winter comes early to Wakehurst Place
- Themed tour - Barks and berries
- Hidden Treasure
- Seed Bank Family Challenge
- Bog garden takes shape
- Minister samples 'conservation in action'
- New Wakehurst Place guide
- Mini Seed Bank launc h
- Honour for garden stalwart
- Country Kew's riot of colour
- Biggest dug-out canoe arrives in Sussex
- Timing the buses
- Themed Tour -The Plant Hunters
- Summer 2002, Country Kew's riot of colour
- Living willow seat
- Badgers at Wakehurst Place
- Endangered shrub saved
- Themed Tour - bluebell woods
- Photo and filming opportunity
- Wild Wood Craft Festival
For further information please contact:
Public Relations
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Richmond
Surrey
TW9 3AB
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 8332 5607/5619
Email:pr@rbgkew.org.uk
Public Relations
Wakehurst Place
Ardingly
Haywards Heath
West Sussex RH17 6TN
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1444 894018
Email:msb@kew.org.
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