Kew's Ambassador for Wakehurst Cate Blanchett hosts the latest series of Kew's award-winning podcast, which explores the past ...

Kew’s global seed banking network, the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP), is the largest plant conservation programme ...

In the earliest days of the Millennium Seed Bank, I was able to negotiate Access and Benefit-Sharing agreements in the USA ...

"Diwali is the Festival of Lights, a five-day period celebrated by Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, and some Buddhists. It is derived ...

A favourite item from the Balls collection which features in the exhibition is his photo album of an expedition to Persia in ...

The results are published in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, the world’s most trusted source of information on ...

Plants and fungi are vital to the future of food, clean air and medicine. We're fighting against biodiversity loss to save life on Earth.

Plant hunters frequently travelled across the world to discover new plants for science. Discover some of their adventures here with stories from Kew's Archives. The Archives team at Kew has been ...

The Rhododendron Dell at Kew is in full, glorious bloom! Librarian Virginia Mills explains how Joseph Hooker first brought rhododendrons from the Himalayas to Kew, The Indian state of Sikkim in the ...

A letter in the Directors' Correspondence archive describes how the deadly prediction of an old Chinese proverb about bamboo flowering came true. "When the bamboo flowers, famine, death and ...

Come and create a beautifully festive Christmas wreath using foliage from our gardens at Kew. Get into the festive spirit and learn a new skill by creating a traditional Christmas wreath adorned with ...

Standing solemnly in the gardens at Kew is the Temple of Arethusa. Originally constructed as a folly for the pleasure of Princess Augusta in 1758 by the architect William Chambers, by 1921 it (like ...