Discover Material World, a festival of art, fashion and horticulture inside the stunning Temperate House. Step into this thought-provoking exhibition that reveals the connections between plants, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover a thrilling after dark Halloween trail full of hidden surprises. This October, Kew Gardens will transform once more into a ghostly, glowing adventure, brought to you by the producers of ...

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 ...

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

Ever wondered why ‘Kew Gardens’ is plural and not singular? In 1772, King George III inherited the Kew estate and joined it with the royal estate in Richmond – two gardens became one. It was George ...

On the roofs above our heads, on garden walls, and in cracks in the pavement; mosses are growing all around us. Often overlooked, these tiny plants have incredible properties. From hot deserts to damp ...

How did the double coconut, one of the natural world’s most celebrated and mysterious phenomena, evolve on a remote island? On the beautiful islands of the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean grows a ...

Pests and pathogens are the two greatest threats to plant health. They have killed billions of trees in forest and urban settings worldwide over the last two decades. They also cost global agriculture ...

Nearly 2000 years ago, the city of Cyrene in Northern Africa (modern day Libya) had one plant to thank for its status as one of the richest cities in the land. It was known as silphium, and had almost ...