Visit the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst to learn more about seed conservation and use. There is a parterre in front of ...

If you’ve seen Netflix’s blockbuster period drama Bridgerton and its spinoff Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story, you may be wondering how much of its sweeping romance is based on reality. Kew Palace, ...

Kew’s Digitisation Project is prompting fresh study of Charles Darwin’s plant collections from his famous trip aboard HMS Beagle. Nearly two centuries after the 22-year-old Charles Darwin set off on ...

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 ...

Many see them as dried, perhaps useless plant specimens of little purpose - but did you know that our specimens are actively being used to combat climate change? Nestled within the vaults of botanical ...

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 ...

Plants and fungi have been used by humans from earliest times. From food, to clothing, weapons and materials, our collection has over 100,000 objects representing how life depends on plants all around ...

This unique collection of botanical art celebrates the beauty of nature in exquisite scientific detail – from an age before photography until the present day. The gallery captures the endless variety ...

Discover Material World, a festival of art, fashion and horticulture inside the stunning Temperate House. Step into this thought-provoking exhibition that reveals the connections between plants, ...

Kew's Herbarium contains around seven million vascular plant specimens. Find out below how to access the Herbarium online, arrange a research visit, request a loan or send in specimens or donated ...

Join us for an immersive mushroom workshop that combines expert knowledge, engaging demonstrations, and a tour of the mushroom beds within the Kitchen Garden at Kew. The workshop begins with an ...

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: ...