Collect your Glow Wild way-finding lantern to illuminate your path and become a colourful part of the trail.

Herbarium specimens serve as vital references for identifying plant species, including those presumed extinct. Detailed ...

Join Alex, Rosie and Issy, Kew’s Curator Mycologists, as they explore the Fungarium, possibly the biggest collection of fungi specimens in the world. Meet weird and wonderful specimens, like the ...

Gerhard Prenner, researcher in plant morphology and anatomy, presents his recent studies on Abrus precatorius, a "deadly beauty" with fascinating flowers and inflorescences. The genus Abrus consists ...

On December 24, the last entry at Brentford Gate and Elizabeth Gate is 6.20pm, and the last entry at Victoria Gate at 7pm (these are new timings for 2024). Tickets for Christmas at Kew do not include ...

Christmas at Kew is back for 2024! Our iconic Christmas at Kew light trail has returned for the festive season, offering a captivating 3km illuminated journey through Kew Gardens at night. Experience ...

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 ...

Scientists at Kew have been studying pollen structure for many years, and trying to unravel how and why certain structures have evolved. In this blog, I will focus on how structures in pollen of ...

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 ...

Find opening and closing times for the Gardens, attractions, cafés, restaurants, shops and car park. Opening and closing times are seasonal and vary throughout the year. We may occasionally need to ...

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 ...

Global species assessments, in which every extant species in a taxonomic group is systematically assessed, have been conducted only for very few plant groups such as cycads, conifers, mangroves and ...