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Meet award-winning botanical illustrator Lucy Smith & discover her line drawings

by: Julia Buckley, Library, Art and Archives blog
17 Jun 2013
Lucy Smith recently won second prize in the Margaret Flockton award for botanical illustration. Read about her work as a botanical illustrator at Kew.

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The last tulip

by: Richard Wilford, Alpine and Rock Garden team blog
10 Jun 2013
As summer finally arrives, the spring bulbs fade and gradually die down for their summer rest. Most tulips have long finished flowering - but there is one species that waits until June to display its bright scarlet blooms.

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The beginnings of Missouri Botanical Garden

by: Virginia Mills, Library, Art and Archives blog
10 Jun 2013
Letter and plans from Kew's Directors' Correspondence archive give a glimpse into the humble beginnings of one of botany's most revered institutions - Missouri Botanical Garden - and its founder Henry Shaw.

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Photo of 'Letters on Geology' by Charles Darwin

First Time Out exhibition - Charles Darwin's book 'Letters on Geology'

Thu 06 June - Wed 31 July 2013

For the first time ever Darwin’s rarest book, Letters on Geology, is being displayed outside Kew’s library, along with one of the original letters on which it was based.

Georgian cookery demonstrations

Part of incredibles festival 2013

Sat 25 May - Mon 26 August 2013

Find out what the Georgians liked to gorge on!

Celebrating the launch of JSTOR Global Plants

by: Kat Harrington, Library, Art and Archives blog
24 May 2013
Kew's unique Directors' Correspondence collection is being made available digitally through a new collaborative website, JSTOR Global Plants.