Our future is botanic

Plants and fungi are vital to the future of food, clean air and medicine. We're fighting against biodiversity loss to save life on Earth.

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Experience our beautiful botanic gardens and the most biodiverse place on Earth.

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  • Event
    Christmas at Kew 2025
    Evenings | Family friendly | Food and drink

    Christmas at Kew

    Selected dates, 14 November 2025 to 4 January 2026
  • Event
    A colourful patchwork of material, plants and fungi
    Exhibitions | Included with entry

    Material World

    20 September to 2 November 2025
  • Event
    A group of colourful dragons learning to fly above some grass
    Included with entry | Family friendly

    Zog

    18 October to 2 November 2025
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    Visitor riding the Kew Explorer land train
    Tours and talks | Family friendly

    Kew Explorer land train

    Daily from 11am

    • Roam wild at Wakehurst

    Visit our wild botanic garden, with 500 acres of woodland and the world's largest seed conservation project.

    Visit Wakehurst
  • Event
    A group of colourful dragons learning to fly above some grass
    Family friendly

    Zog

    18 October to 2 November 2025
  • Event
    Glow Wild 2025
    Family friendly | Evenings | Food and drink

    Glow Wild

    Selected evenings, 27 November 2025 to 3 January 2026
  • Event
    Short courses

    Christmas wreath making workshop

    Selected dates, 28 November to 7 December 2025
  • Event
    Members of the public enjoying a guided walking tour around Wakehurst
    Tours and talks | Included with entry

    Daily guided walking tour of Wakehurst

    Daily
    • Botanical Propagation Assistant, Eliana Van Der Schraft, is scarifying seed under a microscope to check the quality and to check for infections.

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    Read & watch

    Read the latest articles from Kew Garden and Wakehurst.

    The elegant sundew, Drosera venusta, a sticky carnivorous plant at Kew
    24 October 2025

    Carnivorous plants explained: venus flytraps, pitcher plants & more

    Tom Pickering, Eddie Johnston
    A banner showing the unearthed need for seeds banner, with an image of cate blanchett
    22 October 2025

    Join Cate Blanchett and explore the Millennium Seed Bank in a new series of Kew's award-winning podcast

    Eddie Johnston
    Seeds or plants of seven species are overlaid with the logo "Millennium Seed Bank 25th Anniversary"
    22 October 2025

    Seven plants saved by the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership

    Mpande Sichamba, Bradley Bianco, Carolina Pañitrur, B. Naqqi Manco, Spyridon Oikonomidis, Stacy Anderson, Elke Zippel
    A weird fungi called octopus stinkhorn (Clathrus archeri) also known as devil's fingers with five red tentacles covered in thick black fluid.
    Play
    21 October 2025

    Facehugger? Demogorgon? Or the Devil's fingers?

    Eddie Johnston
    Michael Way amongst a sea of flowers at Wakehurst
    21 October 2025

    Memories from helping to create the Millennium Seed Bank and its Partnership

    Michael Way
    Burning Diwali diya oil lamp and flowers
    20 October 2025

    Anjula Devi's 5 plants of Diwali

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