Kew's native flower seeds project - in pictures

A species-rich, trackside verge at Beech Estate, East Sussex. The project is initially concentrating on the lowland meadows that make up part of the country's semi-natural grassland habitats, 98% of which have vanished from England and Wales since the 1930s Photograph: Andrew McRobb/RBG Kew

Larger permanent seed beds stretching over a hectare (2.5 acres) are being prepared to harvest seeds that can then be grown on by seed companies to bulk up their supplies for conservation groups and landowners to use Photograph: Wolfgang Stuppy/RBG Kew

Cuckoo flower (Cardamine pratensis) is one of the first seed crops to be grown in the temporary beds for Kew's UK Native Seed Hub Photograph: Wolfgang Stuppy/RBG Kew

Interim seed production beds, open to the public until the end of September, have been set up in the walled nursery at Wakehurst Place Photograph: Wolfgang Stuppy/RBG Kew

Oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum vulgare). Visitors will also be able to experience a newly restored lowland meadow around the Millennium Seed Bank building Photograph: Wolfgang Stuppy/RBG Kew

Common knapweed (Centaurea nigra) is one of the meadow flowers that will be cultivated Photograph: Wolfgang Stuppy/RBG Kew

Common sorrel (Rumex acetosa) Photograph: H.Zell/RBG Kew

Cowslip (Primula veris) Photograph: Wolfgang Stuppy/RBG Kew

Devil's-bit scabious (Succisa pratensis) Photograph: Wolfgang Stuppy/RBG Kew

Birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) Photograph: Wolfgang Stuppy/RBG Kew

Autumn hawkbit (Leontodon autumnalis) Photograph: Kristian Peters/Fabelfroh/RBG Kew

Ragged-robin (Silene flos-cuculi) Photograph: Wolfgang Stuppy/RBG Kew

Yellow archangel (Lamiastrum galeobdolon) Photograph: Darkone/RBG Kew

Pasque flower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) Photograph: Wenkbrauwalbatros/RBG Kew

Flatweed (Hypochaeris radicata) Photograph: Wolfgang Stuppy/RBG Kew

Saw-wort (Serratula tinctoria) Photograph: Franz Xaver/RBG Kew

Dyer's greenwood Genista tinctoria Photograph: Bernd Haynold/RBG Kew

Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) Photograph: Hans Hillewaert/RBG Kew

Cuckoo flower (Cardamine pratensis) Photograph: Wolfgang Stuppy/RBG Kew

Bugle (Ajuga reptans) Photograph: H.Zell/RBG Kew

Green field-speedwell (Veronica agrestis) Photograph: Fornax/RBG Kew