Winter Warmer Huts along the trail: keep nice and toasty with warm sausage rolls, giant cheese straws and pigs in blankets.

RBG Kew has had a partnership with the Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique (Instituto de Investigação Agrária de ...

Glow Wild doesn’t just celebrate the diversity of animals and seeds on land: it also shines a light on the incredible variety ...

During 2023 and 2024, an international conservation team made up of Kew scientists and horticulturists, alongside experts ...

As mentioned, CITES (The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is celebrating its 50 th year which means that for the past five decades, it has worked to ...

Wollemi pines (Wollemia nobilis) were thought to be extinct for two million years. But in 1994 a group of researchers were exploring the canyons of Wollemi in the Australian Blue Mountains, where they ...

Kew's Archives hold vast collections on our history as a global centre of plant information and renowned botanical garden. Eryl Smith was born Eryl Glynne in Glyndyl, North Wales, around 1893. Smith ...

Find opening and closing times for the Gardens, attractions, cafés, restaurants, shops and car park. Opening and closing times are seasonal and vary throughout the year. We may occasionally need to ...

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 ...

Directors' Correspondence digitiser, Kat Harrington looks at letters to Kew's first official Director, Sir William Jackson Hooker, sent from Brazil. The first is from Maria Graham (in later life, ...

Sir Joseph Hooker brought back many new specimens of rhododendron from his travels to the Himalaya in the mid-19th century. Struck by the spectacular beauty of these colourful flowers, he exclaimed: ...

Discover our funded PhD opportunities in environmental science and plant humanities and learn about our involvement with a range of Doctoral Training Partnerships and similar schemes. Our studentships ...