All summer long, Kew members and their guests can visit the Gardens from 8am. Escape the crowds and be the first to enjoy the ...

I’m on a video call with Dr Lova Marline, a bryologist from Madagascar who has recently moved to the US to join Harvard ...

Medicinal plants walking tour Discover the medicinal properties of various plants, including those used in modern medicine and throughout history on this walking tour.

On Friday 25 July 2025, Kew Gardens in London opens one of its most ambitious garden projects in recent years: the Carbon Garden. Today, we’re sharing the first images of the new creation. Through ...

History of Kew Our Gardens date back to the early 18th century, as a royal palace to today's globally renowned scientific institution for plant and fungal research.

Millennium Seed Bank As we celebrate 25 years of seed banking, learn how we use our collections to combat biodiversity loss and climate change through scientific research while restoring habitats with ...

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

Theatre on Kew: Alice in Wonderland Join Alice on her amazing journey through Wonderland and experience an adventure like no other.

Pollen and pollinators in legumes Kew scientist Hannah Banks, a member of the Comparative Plant and Fungal Biology team, speculates on whether we can use pollen structure to predict which species are ...

Allium (Allium species) Hardy aloe (Aloe striatula) Peruvian lily (Alstroemeria) White sagebrush (Artemisia ludoviciana) King’s spear (Asphodeline lutea) White asphodel (Asphodelus albus) False ...

A Botanical Miscellany? Digitising the Directors' Correspondence Directors' Correspondence digitiser, Kat Harrington looks at letters to Kew's first official Director, Sir William Jackson Hooker, sent ...