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Featured in this episodeBranch for the orchid display in the Princess of Wales Conservatory
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BBC's 'A Year at Kew'Episode 8Collecting in JapanThe team from Kew’s arboretum are plant hunting on an island off Japan. One plant they come across causes particular interest since it appears to be unknown and unnamed. If they are right then it could be the kind of day botanists dream about. Branch for the orchid display in the Princess of Wales Conservatory
Due to the heavy autumn rains a branch has fallen from a tree in the arboretum. Phil Griffiths, Head of Glasshouse Displays, has been looking for a branch for the Princess of Wales Conservatory for over two years for an important orchid display. But will they manage to manoeuvre the heavy piece of tree without damaging the precious glasshouse? Lady’s Slipper OrchidThe Lady’s Slipper orchid is one of Britain’s rare wildflowers and with only one remaining in the wild its location is a guarded secret. In Kew’s micropropagation Grace Prendergast is responsible for growing the carefully collected seeds in clinical and highly sterile conditions. Then they leave her care and travel to a secret location in the North of England where English Nature are eagerly awaiting the precious seedlings for planting out. This is conservation on the home front. Kew's biggest treeOf all Kew’s 14,000 trees, the Chestnut Oak, Quercus castaneifolia is the largest. On an early autumn morning members of the tree gang add a protective and nutritious layer of mulch around the tree’s base before climbing high into its limbs for some essential tree work.
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