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

Scientists at RBG Kew and Queen Mary University of London have found evidence that young ash tree populations are evolving ...

Richard Deverell Richard started as Director of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 2012. At the BBC he spent 10 years in BBC News and ran the BBC News websites before revamping the BBC’s children’s ...

We often think of insects buzzing around our flower beds or meadows, but pollen and nectar also come from trees, which only have a tiny footprint in our landscapes. Whether insect-pollinated or ...

Travel the world in this truly impressive cathedral of plants – home to 1,200 species from Asia, Australasia, the Americas, and Africa. Following a major five-year renovation process, the Grade 1 ...

Orchid seeds are spread by the wind, which is why they're so tiny. Varying when each seed germinates protects the population ...

Join Kew botanical horticulturist Vicki Thompson to discover where snowdrops originally come from, exactly who distributes ...

Technology like LiDAR isn’t just used for scientific research though: it’s also the magic behind some incredible art. Of the ...

With over 580 science staff, Kew’s mission is to understand and protect plants and fungi for the well-being of people and the future of all life on Earth.

Read & watch Go behind the scenes to get the latest in our cutting-edge science and uncover the fascinating world of plants and fungi.

20th century plant hunters In the 20th century, Kew used its own botanists to bring plants back from around the world, and self-made plant collectors still sent plants to Kew. Frank Kingdon-Ward (1885 ...

Unravelling evolutionary history Current research on aloes in the Jodrell Laboratory focuses on unravelling their evolutionary history based on phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequence data. Working with ...