You’ll visit Kew’s new Winter Garden, filled with cold loving plants, like hellebores ( Helleborus ), snowdrops ( Galanthus) ...

We have a wide variety of cafés and restaurants at Kew Gardens. Look out for seasonal specialties and food foraged from our Gardens. Look out for our reusable cup scheme at Victoria Plaza Café – we’re ...

EYFS to KS5 curriculum-linked education sessions, led by a Kew teacher, for school groups, home educators and other educational organisations. Self-led visits for school groups, university groups, ...

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 ...

Like other gourds, the snake gourd is a member of the pumpkin family (Cucurbitaceae) and has seeds similar to its cousin the water melon (Citrullus lanatus), although slightly more eccentric, sporting ...

Recently-released IUCN Red List assessments for slipper orchids from the temperate Northern Hemisphere show that a shocking 79% of species are threatened with extinction. Mike Fay, Head of Genetics ...

Discover more about the conservation work carried out on one of the most important, popular and fascinating collection in the Archives. Among the several million original items in Kew’s Archives is a ...

Joanne Yeomans explores how Kew has inspired people including royalty throughout its history and introduces a new exhibition at the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art which celebrates this. The ...

Currently, I am responsible for seed conservation at the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership in Madagascar. The aim is to establish a protocol of processing and conservation for species collected by SNGF ...

Plant hunters frequently travelled across the world to discover new plants for science. Discover some of their adventures here with stories from Kew's Archives. The Archives team at Kew has been ...

The origin of tropical fire-maintained open canopy areas has often been assumed to be anthropogenic even though increasing evidence points to their common natural origin. Old growth grasslands can be ...