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BBC's 'A Year at Kew'Episode 10Kew Palace digBehind Kew Palace, once a home of George III, there are plans to open the palace to the public and an access lift is to be fitted to the outside, in a gulley once occupied by the latrine shoot. But before any work can begin archaeologists have been brought in to discover any secrets of the past that might lie undisturbed beneath the paving of the courtyard. What they find is as mysterious as it is exciting. Seed collecting in MadagascarThe Millennium Seedbank is based at Kew’s garden in the country, Wakehurst Place in Sussex. It’s Kew’s most futuristic project - laboratories and a public exhibition, standing on top of a fireproof vault where seeds of the world’s endangered plants can be kept forever. One of Kew's seed collectors, is sent on a mission to find a succulent, Aloe suzannae, thought to exist only in Madagascar’s inhospitable spiny forests and collect its seeds to conserve forever. Darwin and the rhododendronIn July Kew won World Heritage Site status and has now had a call for help from Down House, a potential future nominee, and former home of Charles Darwin. It has had a relationship with Kew going back over 150 years when Kew’s then director sent plants to Darwin to help him with his work. Down House garden is being restored with original plants from the garden of Darwin’s time and Randal Keynes, Darwin’s great, great grandson, is hoping Kew can renew the gift of a Sikkim rhododendron.
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