Each year over a million people visit the gardens at Kew and Wakehurst Place. Kew Gardens is renowned for its superb plantings, vistas and historic buildings, whilst Wakehurst Place, Kew's country estate in the High Weald of Sussex, is deservedly gaining popularity with its mix of formal gardens and woodland walks.

But behind each of them is serious science. Kew is an internationally respected centre of scientific excellence, researching plants, collecting and conserving endangered species and maintaining unique reference collections.

In sharing its knowledge with interested parties throughout the world, Kew strives to live up to its mission; "Saving the world's plants for life."

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