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There are more than a few reasons to visit Kew Gardens, London’s botanical paradise. For one, the botanical gardens houses more than 50,000 different plants, as well as a library packed with ...
Top scented plants for your garden, from a Kew expert. Story by Lara Owen • 1w. While many of us are preoccupied with how our gardens are looking, scent is just as important in an outdoor space.
Technology like LiDAR isn’t just used for scientific research though: it’s also the magic behind some incredible art. Of the ...
Kew Gardens will open a ‘groundbreaking’ new garden in July warning of the urgent need to tackle the climate crisis. The Carbon Garden will show how carbon helps to sustain life on Earth, the ...
Plants are one of the many things at risk of disappearing thanks global warming. But they’re also one of the things that can help fight it. And this summer, Kew Gardens is introducing a brand ...
Kew Gardens to chop down up to 1,000 doomed ash dieback trees at nature reserve Deadly plant disease forces 150 acre Loder Valley site in Sussex to be closed as mass felling begins Daniel Capurro ...
Specialists at Kew Gardens are digitising its entire archive of eight million dried plant specimens, including some picked by the naturalist and biologist Charles Darwin. The biggest project ever ...
A fungal pavilion, rain garden and colourful plants growing like climate stripes will feature in the new design this summer. Kew Gardens has unveiled plans for a new ‘Carbon Garden’ at its ...
Mr. Magdalena’s main responsibility at Kew Gardens is tending tropical plants. But he is also known as “the plant messiah,” as anointed by a Spanish newspaper in 2010, ...
For Tony Hall, Kew Gardens’ Head of Arboretum and Temperate Collections, scented plants are “not just an attraction for wildlife,” but are key in cultivating a therapeutic and multi-sensory ...