In the mountains of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola is a cool, luscious, mist-damp world – an ecosystem known as Tropical ...

On the High Weald of West Sussex, Wakehurst is accessible by car or bus, and is a short drive from Haywards Heath station.

My role as Research Leader in the Nature Unlocked: Landscape Ecology Programme is to develop and facilitate science at Wakehurst; Kew's "living laboratory".

200 scientists contributed to our fifth State of the World’s Plants and Fungi report, identifying critical gaps in biodiversity data. Kew experts and partners additionally studied diverse aspects of ...

Stop by the Children's & Community Garden on your next visit to Wakehurst, to discover the brand new Mud Kitchen, as well as ...

From enchanting gardens to iconic buildings, our venues are designed to create an unforgettable experience for you and your guests - all within easy reach of central London.

Like other gourds, the snake gourd is a member of the pumpkin family (Cucurbitaceae) and has seeds similar to its cousin the water melon (Citrullus lanatus), although slightly more eccentric, sporting ...

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 ...

Directors' Correspondence digitiser, Kat Harrington looks at letters to Kew's first official Director, Sir William Jackson Hooker, sent from Brazil. The first is from Maria Graham (in later life, ...

The Director's Correspondence contains letters from several members of the Veitch family, famed for the Veitch & Sons Nurseries, a name synonymous with horticulture for much of the 18th century, when ...

I have recently completed conservation of a large collection of botanical watercolours that were on a variety of supports including paper, vellum and a very fragile Chinese paper. The Ann Lee ...