Immerse yourself in nature and take time out for yourself in 2025 with You, at Kew. Enjoy our range of events aimed at improving wellbeing. From an unforgettable yoga experience in the Temperate House ...

Orchids do need special soil. The best soil for an orchid is usually a good grade bark-based compost. Do not add any soil 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 ...

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 ...

This year’s International Day for Biological Diversity highlights the uniqueness of island biodiversity and the threats it faces, yet so much of island diversity remains essentially unknown. On 22 May ...

I have recently completed conservation of a large collection of botanical watercolours that were on a variety of supports including paper, vellum and a very fragile Chinese paper. The Ann Lee ...

The Director's Correspondence contains letters from several members of the Veitch family, famed for the Veitch & Sons Nurseries, a name synonymous with horticulture for much of the 18th century, when ...

A glorious week-long festival of summer concerts set within the stunning grounds of Kew Gardens. Recognised as one of the UK’s most stunning summer concert venues, the event attracts music lovers of ...

In the early 1900s, Walter Charles Fishlock, a Kew gardener, embarked on a remarkable journey across the Atlantic to the ...