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Go Wild Festival,
Badger Sett & Field Hospital

Titan Arum

Giant Bamboo

Defra Biodiversity Garden & fishing in the Palm House Pond

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BBC's 'A Year at Kew'

Episode 2

Go Wild Festival

The run up to launch day and the rush to get both the badger sett and the Field Hospital ready despite the inclement weather.

Titan Arum

The opening of the biggest flower in the world and the discovery for the first time of the chemical compounds which make it’s distinctive smell.

Cutting the giant bamboo

There is a growing threat to the listed Victorian Palm House from the giant bamboo which pushes upwards at a rate of several centimetres a day and would eventually grow through the glass if it went unchecked. So Emma Fox, the Keeper, has called in the Tree Gang to cut it down to size.

Jon and the fish

The new Defra garden is due to be opened and to mark the occasion Michael Meacher, a government minister, is coming to Kew to release a fish into the garden’s pond. All they need now is a fish….

So Jon Hammerton, of Kew’s Tree Gang, is given the responsibility of catching one of the fish from the Palm House pond. His son Jonathan comes along on a dark, rainy evening to give him a hand.

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