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Pruning Roses

Cabbage Tree

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Tree pruning

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BBC's 'A Year at Kew'

Series 2, Episode 5

Pruning Roses

The Rose Pergola receives specialist attention and pruning techniques.

Cabbage Tree

Robinson Crusoe’s rare cabbage tree plant has been grown at Wakehurst Place, and the plants make a precarious journey to Kew for display, along with specimens to be stored in the herbarium for research.

St Helena

Steve Alton, from the Millennium Seed Bank, makes a long journey to the island of St Helena, via Namibia, on a special seed collecting mission.

Trebah

Ray Townsend makes a trip to Trebah Gardens in Cornwall, where some of Kew ’s trees grow to encourage biodiversity. He plants some which he brought back from his trip to Japan last year.

Tree Pruning

Matthew Nicholas, the new recruit in the tree gang gets a tree pruning lesson from Andy McClure.

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