Worried about the risk of fire, Gerald Loder created a fire brigade for Wakehurst in 1934. Loder was right in his concerns, ...

Join Iain Parkinson, Wakehurst’s Head of Landscape & Horticulture as he reflects on the beauty and importance of meadows.

Ash dieback is a disease caused by a fungus called Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, an invasive species which has spread across Europe in the past 30 years. The fungus grows into the trees’ vascular systems ...

New portal makes millions of specimens freely accessible to the world Kew’s vast botanical and mycological archive - plant and fungal specimens collected over centuries - is now just a click away, ...

Eating and drinking We have a wide variety of cafés and restaurants at Kew Gardens. Look out for seasonal specialties and food foraged from our Gardens. All our cafés and restaurants source seasonal ...

Nature has been the inspiration for many forms of art and literature throughout history. In fact, it inspired the very first photographically illustrated book. Cyanotype photography is a camera-less ...

Four flowers that have become queer symbols Discover the stories behind why these four iconic plants were adopted as symbols of resilience and resistance by the LGBTQ+ community.

Scientists predict 3 in 4 of the planet’s undescribed plant species are already threatened with extinction, says new report From Kew’s State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023 report published today ...

Nestled within the vaults of botanical gardens and museums around the world lie millions of herbarium specimens: an army of dried plants collected over hundreds of years and lying witness to serious ...

7 interesting things about moss Often overlooked, this miniature plant has more to it than meets the eye.

Kew’s top 10 new species of 2023 Kew’s scientists and international partners share their 10 favourite new species named to science in 2023.