Join Charles and the horticulture team as they create a wildflower meadow using ancient scything techniques at Kew Gardens.

The Wakehurst Christmas lights will return in 2026, inspired by gifts of nature. It’s a reminder that the greatest treasures ...

Kew scientists named 190 new plants and fungi described together with partners in 2025 List includes a ‘zombie’ fungus from Brazil, a ‘bloodstained’ orchid from Ecuador, a strange snowdrop from the ...

Kew's scientists and international partners share their favourite species named as new to science in another big year for nature. In the past 12 months, our taxonomists and our collaborators around ...

Plantasia, Kew’s summer festival celebrating the positive effects of plants, is underway. Researcher Olwen Grace highlights investigations in the Jodrell Laboratory on Aloe vera, one of the most ...

Gerhard Prenner, researcher in plant morphology and anatomy, presents his recent studies on Abrus precatorius, a "deadly beauty" with fascinating flowers and inflorescences. The genus Abrus consists ...

Experience the wonder of Christmas at Kew 2025, London’s most enchanting festive light trail. Christmas at Kew 2025 invites you into a botanical world of light, music and magic. This year’s trail ...

I am one of Kew’s new Library Graduate Trainees and as part of my role, I am required to retrieve resources for users in the library Reading Room. My interest was recently piqued whilst retrieving ...

Gerhard Prenner, researcher in plant morphology and anatomy, presents his recent ontogenetic study on one of the passion flowers, Passiflora lobata. He reveals insights about its peculiar flowers and ...

Scientists at Kew have been studying pollen structure for many years, and trying to unravel how and why certain structures have evolved. In this blog, I will focus on how structures in pollen of ...

A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...