Contains accepted names and over 1,020,000 synonyms for more than 343,000 plant species. It is the most comprehensive and actively curated dataset on plant taxonomy, created in collaboration with ...

Manuscripts, letters, diaries, research papers, collecting notebooks, photograph albums and many other types of material held in the Archive Collection. The IMI database contains around 400 000 ...

Opening times will vary during October: please see the Planned Closures page for more information. The Temperate House will be partially closed from 3 to 7 November 2025. Travel the world in this ...

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 ...

Kew's Ambassador for Wakehurst Cate Blanchett hosts the latest series of Kew's award-winning podcast, which explores the past ...

Kew’s global seed banking network, the Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP), is the largest plant conservation programme in the world. Its network spans 100 countries and territories across six ...

The UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. In less than a century, we’ve lost more than 97% of our species-rich meadows and grasslands. Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank is saving wild ...

In the earliest days of the Millennium Seed Bank, I was able to negotiate Access and Benefit-Sharing agreements in the USA ...

Lindfield-based florist Gemma from The Chestnut Flower Company will lead this relaxed and enjoyable workshop, guiding you ...

A favourite item from the Balls collection which features in the exhibition is his photo album of an expedition to Persia in 1932. While he was travelling primarily for plant collecting, he recorded a ...

The extraordinary collections and observations made by the English naturalist, Richard Spruce in Brazil are finding their way out of the archives and back to their country and communities of origin, ...

Standing solemnly in the gardens at Kew is the Temple of Arethusa. Originally constructed as a folly for the pleasure of Princess Augusta in 1758 by the architect William Chambers, by 1921 it (like ...