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Kew and Wakehurst Place Visitor Information - index

Planning your visit to Kew:

• How to find us
• Opening times
• Admission prices
• Group bookings
• If you have Special Needs
• Overseas visitors
• School visits
• Garden Regulations

What you can do at Kew:

• Kew Explorer
• Guided tours
• Self-guided trails
• Shops
• Restaurants
• Current garden features - details of what you can see now in the gardens
• Seasonal highlights for the year:
  • spring
  • summer
  • autumn
  • winter
• Find out more about our seasonal events at Kew

Maps:

• interactive map
• Explore Kew Gardens online: virtual tour of Kew
• strolling map (how long it takes to walk between major features)
• line drawing (for printing)
• other languages: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish

Planning your visit to Wakehurst Place:

• How to find us
• Opening times
• Admission prices
• Group bookings
• If you have Special Needs
• Overseas visitors
• School visits
• Garden Regulations

What you can do at Wakehurst Place:

• Guided tours
• Self-guided trails
• Shops
• Restaurants
• Seasonal Highlights - details of what you can see now in the gardens
• Garden features
• Seasonal highlights for the year:
  • spring
  • summer
  • autumn
  • winter
• Events and exhibitions

• Millennium Seed Bank

What's on at Kew and Wakehurst Place- index

• Current events
• Diary of future events
  
• Guided Tours at Kew
• Guided Tours at Wakehurst Place
  
• Short Courses and Study Days

About Kew and Wakehurst Place- index

Who we are

• The Board of Trustees
• Director - Professor Stephen D Hopper
• Directorate and Heads of Department
• Staff
• Organisation

Our work

• Aims and activities
• Annual Report & Accounts 2005/06
• Corporate Plan 2006/07 - 2010/11
  
• Job opportunities
• Volunteer opportunities

On 3 July 2003 the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was officially inscribed on the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO. Our new History & Heritage website allows you to take a journey through time, meet the people who shaped the gardens, explore the fascinating places, and discover some of Kew's heritage plants. find out more.....

• Wakehurst Place's heritage

Access to Information

• Contacting us
• Media Centre

• Freedom of Information Act - Publication Scheme

Further Information

• Our collaborators
• Links to other botanic gardens and museums
• Links to other useful organisations

• About this website
• About the web icons
• Other websites hosted by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

How You Can Help - index

• Kew Magazine

• Make a donation

• Friends membership

• Friends Volunteers

• Commemorative schemes

• Legacies

• Corporate partnerships

• Trusts and Foundations

Shops and services index

General interest

• Retail outlets on-site and elsewhere

• Holding your wedding at Kew

• Venues for corporate hire

• Permits for photography

Related information

• Kew Scientific Publications

• Plant identifications and advice

• Chinese medicinal plant authentications

For the media

• Press releases

• Permits for Press photography

• Permits to film within the Gardens
  

Science and horticulture index

Scientific research

• Scientific Activities
  • Biological Interaction
  • Economic Botany
  • GIS
  • Horticultural Taxonomy
  • Plant DNA Banking
  • Seed Conservation
  • CITES Authority
  • Molecular Systematics
  • Cytogenetics
  • Plant Anatomy
  • Palynology
  • Nomenclature
  • Micropropagation
  • Mycology


• Plant & Fungal Groups
  • Poaceae (Gramineae)
  • Cyperaceae
  • Compositae
  • Lamiaceae
    
    
• Geographical Regions
  
  • Madagascar
  • North-east Brazil
  • South East Asia
  • GIS

   

Horticulture

• Horticultural Activities
  
• Micropropagation pdf format
• Composting
• Plant Quarantine
• Biological Pest Control
• Alpines

• Garden Features
  
  • Aquatic Garden
  • Arboretum
  • Azalea Garden
  • Bamboo Garden
  • Berberis Dell
  • Broad Walk
  • Conservation Area
  • Dukes Garden
  • Grass Garden
  • Half-Hardy Herbaceous
  • Holly Walk
  • Japanese Landscape
  • Juniper Collection
  • Lake & Pinetum
  • Lilac Garden
  • Marine Display
  • Order Beds
  • Queen's Cottage
  • Rhododendron Dell
  • Rock Garden
  • Rose Garden
  • Secluded Garden
  • Winter Garden
  • Woodland Garden
  • Woodland Glade

• Glasshouses
• Alpine House
• Evolution House
• Palm House
• Princess of Wales Conservatory
• Temperate House
• Waterlily House

Collections index

Living collections

• Plants
• Seed

Herbarium collections

• Botanical specimens
• Herbarium seed collections
• Mycological specimens

Artefacts of plant origin

• Economic botany collections

Reference collections

• Economic botany transparencies (Harlan Collection)
• Library & Archives

Buildings and structures

• Glasshouses
• Museums, galleries and other historic buildings
• Decorative structures
• "Working" buildings

Conservation and Wildlife - index

• UK CITES Scientific Authority for Plants;
• seed conservation;
• Threatened Plants Appeal;

• plant conservation techniques

• commercial use of wild and traditionally managed plants;

• participating in collaborative research throughout the world:

  • People & Plants Initiative

We also have some interesting conservation links.

New

New Economic Botany Links pages.

Centre for Economic Botany
People and Plants

Conserving Wildlife Habitats

native wildlife

Data and publications index

General Publications

• ePIC (electronic Plant Information Centre)
• Kew Bibliographic Databases (KBD)
• Kew Magazine
• Kew Scientist
• Library Catalogue
• Kew Publications

Conservation

• CITES News
• CITES Publications

Economic Botany

• Commercial use of wild and traditionally managed plants in the UK
  Economic Botany Bibliographic Database - part of KBD
• Economic Botany Data Collection Standard
• Plantas do Nordeste (PNE) Newsletter
• SEPASAL Database (Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands)

Floras and Keys

• Flora Zambesiaca online (eFloras)
• Interactive key to the Genera of Euphorbiaceae sensu lato
• Interactive key to the genera of Salicaceae sensu lato (syn. Flacourtiaceae) and Achariaceae sensu lato
• Interactive key to Malesian Plants
• Interactive key to the rattans of Lao PDR
  

Geographic Information

• GIS and Conservation for Madagascar
• TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions

Molecular and Genome Biology

• Plant DNA C-Values Database
• DNA Bank Database
  

Morphology

• Plant Micromorphology Bibliographic Database (PMBD) - part of KBD
• Inside Wood (collaborative database at North Carolina State University)

Nomenclature, Taxonomy & Systematics

• Bean Bag Newsletter
• Cyperaceae Newsletter
• Herbarium Catalogue
• Interactive key to the Genera of Euphorbiaceae sensu lato
• Interactive key to the rattans of Lao PDR
• IPNI (International Plant Names Index)
• Kew Bulletin
• Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature - part of KBD
• Orchid Research News
• Vascular Plant Families and Genera Database
• Vitex (formerly Lamiales Newsletter)
• World Checklist of Monocotyledons
• World Checklist of Rubiaceae
• World CheckList of Selected Plant Families
• World Grass Species - Descriptions
• World Grass Species Synonym Database - download

Rare Books & Illustrations

• Hortus Nitidissimis
• John Day Scrapbooks

Repatriation

• Brazilian Repatriation Database

Seeds

• Samara Newsletter
• Seed Information Database
• Millennium Seed Bank Seed List

Education Index

• Higher Education & Training

  • Latin American Research Fellowships Programme (KLARF)
  • Kew Diploma in Horticulture
  • International Diploma Courses
  • Masters programmes
  • Specialist teaching modules
  • PhD programme
  • Internships
    • Horticulture
    • Economic Botany
    
    
    
• Schools Education
  • At Kew
    • Trip tips
    • Pre-visit planning
    • Making the most of your day
    • Booking a visit
    • Teachers' packs
    • Activities
      
      
  • At Wakehurst Place
    • Trip tips
    • Pre-visit planning
    • Making the most of your day
    • Booking a visit
    • Teachers' packs
    • Activities
    
    
  • Teacher training
  • Volunteer Schools Explainers
    

• Public Education
  • Short Courses and Study Days
    
    
• Resources
  • Information sheets