Everything tagged 'vibrant'

The 'Christmassy' killer raspberry

by: Wolfgang Stuppy, Millennium Seed Bank blog
11 Dec 2012
The Millennium Seed Bank's seed morphologist, Wolfgang Stuppy, is back with his final blog of the year. To wish you all a very 'Merry Christmas', he is sharing some festive images of a flesh-eating killer raspberry! Do you dare read on ...

Autumn colour - Six of the best

by: Anthony Hall, Arboretum team blog
12 Nov 2012
So many of the trees and shrubs at Kew show outstanding autumn colour that it has been difficult choosing just the best six

The perfect Japanese maple?

by: Katie Price, Alpine and Rock Garden team blog
25 Oct 2011
The trees in the Woodland Garden provide shade for us to grow a range of woodland plants and bulbs, but they also add their own colour at this time of year. The Japanese maple, Acer palmatum 'Sangokaku', is one of the best.

Alpine success at Chelsea

by: Richard Wilford, Alpine and Rock Garden team blog
26 May 2011
Kew's Alpine Nursery sent plants to the Chelsea Flower Show to be shown to the RHS Rock Garden Plant Committee - and three out of four received an award! Read on to see the what caught the Committee's eye.

Tony visits the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens and mountains of southern Spain

by: Tony Hall, Arboretum team blog
09 Mar 2011
Follow Tony Hall, Manager of the Arboretum at Kew, on his visit to the Gibraltar Botanic Gardens. See the new rock garden they are creating and look at the wonderful array of wild Narcissus, orchids and spring flowering shrubs in the mountains of southern Spain.

Discover the show-stopping Nymphaea 'Arc-en-ciel'

by: Sam Crosfield, Tropical Nursery blog
14 Jan 2011
Find out about the show-stopping, psychedelic and truly unique waterlily, Nymphaea 'Arc-en-ciel', which is grown in the aquatic zone of the Tropical Nursery and displayed to the public in the Princess of Wales Conservatory.

Natural Relationships - Partners or Pests? What lessons can business learn?

by: Polly Williamson, Business Inspired by Nature blog
20 Aug 2010
Nature has evolved different styles of relationship – ranging from partner to parasite – to cope with stress and change. There is much that can be learnt from nature by business organisations to help them adapt more rapidly to the rapidly changing or uncertain conditions.