Collect your Glow Wild way-finding lantern to illuminate your path and become a colourful part of the trail.

Be immersed in plants and nature during our interactive storytelling family sensory tour with a seasonal focus in The Temperate House and surrounding area. Our tours are designed for children age 0 to ...

A glorious week-long festival of summer concerts set within the stunning grounds of Kew Gardens. Proving to be a hit for all generations of music lovers, Kew The Music is the perfect evening out for ...

My taxonomic research focuses upon the Compositae (Asteraceae) family. I am interested in using this diverse family as a model group for considering ecological questions. My research has considered ...

As a seed curator for the Garfield Weston Global Tree Seed Bank Programme, my main task is to conduct seed germination tests on a range of plant species to understand and record the longevity and ...

My research broadly focuses on the origins of agriculture. My project aims to determine the palaeoclimatic and socio-cultural drivers of the transition from hunter-gathering to farming; to this end, ...

Herbarium specimens serve as vital references for identifying plant species, including those presumed extinct. Detailed ...

Gerhard Prenner, researcher in plant morphology and anatomy, presents his recent studies on Abrus precatorius, a "deadly beauty" with fascinating flowers and inflorescences. The genus Abrus consists ...

James Wearn, leading a project called ‘Kew Gardens at War’, describes how one poppy helped to keep pain away during wartime while another poppy lets us remember and reflect on the pain and sorrow of ...

Scientists at Kew have been studying pollen structure for many years, and trying to unravel how and why certain structures have evolved. In this blog, I will focus on how structures in pollen of ...

The Directors' Correspondence Team reveals the artistic talents of an amateur orchid enthusiast in Burma at the end of the 19th century. The Directors' Correspondence team really enjoyed the recent ...