The Archives at Kew Gardens are home to the official records of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. These contain information ...

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

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 ...

Discover Kew's hidden winter highlights on this free walking tour. Take a guided walk among Kew’s winter landscape and find out more about the guides favorite plants and how they burst into life this ...

Discover some of the rarest and most endangered plants in the world and learn about what Kew and others are doing to protect and conserve them on this free walking tour. Tour starts from the guides ...

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.

The sixteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is due to be held in Colombia in October 2024. This UN Biodiversity Conference will be ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...