The best time to see spring flowers at Kew is from mid-March to mid-April. Our gardens come alive with magnolias, cherry ...

Thursday 20 March: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew is proud to announce the 17 th recipient of the Kew International Medal is Dr Cécile Ndjebet, Cameroonian environmental activist and social forester.

On Monday 10 March 2025 Carlos Magdalena, Scientific & Botanical Research Horticulturist at Kew Gardens, was awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic for his dedicated work in ...

With over 8.5 million items, we house the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world. They represent approximately 95% of vascular plant genera and 60% of known fungal ...

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 ...

William Milliken, Head of Kew's Tropical America team, examines the importance of Kew's collection of over seven million herbarium specimens, and how this resource is being used to tackle the global ...

Trees for bees is our citizen science project at Wakehurst. With your help, we can find out what trees pollinators like best and how to make our cities more pollinator-friendly. We often think of ...

Maintaining a sustainable food supply in Madagascar for low-income families in the face of climate change. Madagascar’s population relies on wild yams for food to supplement small, seasonal and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Working with partners in Sub-Saharan Africa to conserve and characterize edible plant species with projected high resilience to future climates. Kew is working with in-country partners to develop ...