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Featured in this episodePumpkins and the Autumn Festival
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BBC's 'A Year at Kew'Episode 9Pumpkins and the Autumn FestivalPhil Griffiths, head of Glasshouse Displays, is on the hunt for four thousand pumpkins for the 2003 Autumn Festival display in the Waterlily House. This year he has designed a brand new conical pumpkin rack as the main feature and Emma Fox, Keeper of the House, is not entirely convinced it will work. Collecting in JapanRay Townsend and Roger Howard from Kew are on a plant hunting expedition to the island of Sado-ga-Shima off the coast of Japan. So far they’ve failed to find Ray’s beloved bamboo or to beat their target of 200 seed collections. But a chance meeting with a local plantsman with excellent knowledge of the island is about to change all that. And on returning to Kew, Ray finds out the exciting news that he really has discovered a new plant. Botanical ArtEvery year Kew hosts a scholarship for Brazilian artists in memory of Margaret Mee, who spent her life documenting the Amazon rainforest. This year’s scholar (2003) is Carol de Bassi and at the end of her five months in Kew she has to mount an exhibition of her work. Will she pass the grade? First Year StudentsKew is home to the world’s most prestigious School of Horticulture. Each year 14 students are chosen from hundreds of applicants worldwide, the cream of tomorrow’s gardening crop. The three year course is a horticultural boot camp, mixing lectures with practical work alongside Kew’s expert team. One of their first major tests is the bamboo identification designed by Ray Townsend and they must do well.
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