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.

Visit the world-famous Kew Gardens Experience our beautiful botanic gardens and the most biodiverse place on Earth. Visit Kew Gardens ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eating and drinking We have a wide variety of cafés and restaurants at Kew Gardens. Look out for seasonal specialties and food foraged from our Gardens. All our cafés and restaurants source seasonal ...

About the project Kew's much loved, iconic Palm House and Waterlily House are showing serious signs of deterioration and are not energy efficient. Without urgent work, the listed buildings and ...

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DNA and Tissue Bank Our DNA and Tissue Bank contains approximately 60,000 samples representing nearly all families (507 families), and over half the genera (around 7,100) of flowering plants. The ...

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 ...