This Black History Month I was invited to write a guest blogpost about my research on William Thomas March (pictured below).

This map prioritises accessibility information and highlights areas of sensory interest. It also includes a zoomed-in map of part of the Gardens, to help you navigate the busiest area.

Since 2019, more than one million illegally harvested succulent plants have been seized by law enforcement authorities in ...

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 ...

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, ...

With ten computer-controlled climate zones, the Princess of Wales Conservatory is a glassy labyrinth leading you through a series of fascinating ecosystems. In our zone dedicated to carnivorous plants ...

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 ...

Discover more about the conservation work carried out on one of the most important, popular and fascinating collection in the Archives. Among the several million original items in Kew’s Archives is a ...

Discover a brand-new, after dark Halloween trail full of hidden surprises. This spooky season, Kew Gardens will transform into a spooktacular adventure, brought to you by the producers of Christmas at ...