For centuries, humans have shaped plants to meet our needs: sweeter fruits, larger harvests, greater resistance to pests. But ...

A plant giant has been named new to science at Kew after spending 177 years hidden under the surface of our collections. A breaking botanical discovery has come to light, as the famous giant waterlily ...

From the pollution-busting London plane, to one of our oldest residents, the black walnut, Richard Deverell, Director of Kew, takes us on a tour of his personal favourites. We have an incredible ...

Celebrate biodiversity in all its form this International Day for Biological Diversity by discovering how you can help protect our most precious natural resource. To mark International Day for ...

Kew Gardens can trace its history back over 250 years to 1759, when Augusta, Princess of Wales, founded a nine acre botanic garden within the pleasure grounds at Kew. Over the years, the Gardens have ...

Since Kew Gardens was first established nearly two hundred years ago, trees have been a key part of the landscape. Around 11,000 of them call the Gardens home, ranging from young saplings to Kew’s Old ...

Kew’s State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023 has arrived, shedding light on our current understanding of plants and fungi, and what we need to find out in order to protect them. Kew’s fifth State ...

Back in 1994, field officer David Noble was exploring the Blue Mountains of eastern Australia when he came across a small group of trees of a species that had never been seen before – later named the ...

Forests are finely tuned to the rhythms of climate. We see these rhythms every year, as leaves fall in autumn and newly formed buds open in spring. Flowers bloom, and seeds are set on a seasonal ...

Scott has been working at Kew for nearly 15 years, working on the Temperate House restoration, the iconic orchid festival and our Palm and Waterlily houses. He gives us some insight into these ...

Find out about our Landscape Ecology Programme that is helping to tackle critical global challenges from climate change to biodiversity loss. The UK is facing multiple ecological threats to nature: ...

AI is taking the world by storm, and science is no exception. Our scientists are using AI to rapidly identify digitised herbarium specimens that underpin crucial research. Believe it or not, one ...