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Mapping Coffee in Ethiopia part one
by: Paul Little, GIS team blog16 Apr 2013
Kew photographer Paul Little has just returned from accompanying a field trip to the Highlands of Ethiopia to research the impact of climate change on the vital coffee crop. Read part one of his diary of the trip.
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Everard Im Thurn and the 'lost world'
by: Katherine Harrington, Library, Art and Archives blog11 Dec 2012
We take a look at the varied career of Everard Im Thurn through his correspondence with the Directors of Kew, and find out about his exploration of the 'lost world' of Mount Roraima in British Guiana.
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Studying yams in Madagascar
by: Tim Harris, Herbarium blog27 Jan 2012
Kew and Feedback Madagascar are collaborating to look at the preferences for different species of edible yam in Madagascan rural communities. Find out about the latest research being undertaken as part of Kew's work in Madagascar.
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Early 20th century plant hunting in Taiwan
by: Katherine Harrington, Library, Art and Archives blog19 Sep 2011
Find out about the experiences in Taiwan of botanical collector William Robert Price through the letters he sent back to Kew Gardens at the turn of the last century.
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Kew Patrons take tour of the Conservation Biotechnology Laboratory
15 Sep 2011
Kew Patrons go behind the scenes for an exclusive tour of Kew’s innovative conservation laboratory and get a glimpse of some of the world’s most endangered plants.
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Summer in the Alpine House
by: Richard Wilford, Alpine and Rock Garden team blog03 Aug 2011
The main flowering season for alpine plants is spring, but there are many mountain plants that flower in summer. You can see plenty of these now in the Davies Alpine House. But why do they flower now?
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Tropical bromeliads in the nursery at Kew
by: Nick Johnson, Tropical Nursery blog28 Jun 2011
Nick Johnson meets the Tropical Nursery’s very own bromeliad expert, Marcelo Sellaro. Find out more about bromeliad cultivation and get suggestions to try at home.
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Name that plant! Learning Plant ID skills at Kew
by: Gemma Bramley, Herbarium blog11 May 2011
From 9-20 May we're running the RBG Kew Tropical Plant Identification course. Find out how our participants, who have travelled to Kew from all over the world, are getting on.
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C.S.P. Parish and the orchids of Burma
by: Katherine Harrington, Library, Art and Archives blog27 Apr 2011
The Directors' Correspondence Team reveals the artistic talents of an amateur orchid enthusiast in Burma at the end of the nineteenth century.
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The "Montserrat pribby" (part two)
by: Nick Johnson, Tropical Nursery blog12 Nov 2010
Nick Johnson explains how a new botanic garden on Montserrat used Rondeletia buxifolia as an alternative hedging plant in the garden to inspire others to follow suit, encouraging the use of island endemics instead of invasives.
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