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A moment that changed me: I went to Kew Gardens – and found a place of safety after homelessness and drug addiction

I’d had a very tough few years after my father died, living on the streets and sleeping with one eye open. But as I looked at a tulip tree that day, my love of gardening came flooding back

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Kew Gardens adds over 300 wild seeds in significant boost to living collection

In 2024 horticulturalists made single biggest introduction of rare seeds to collection in the past decade

The Guardian - UK

Michael Roper obituary

Other lives: Head of the Public Records Office who helped to plan and implement its move to a new facility in Kew

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Flying high: Kew botanists and paramotorists survey rare plants in Peru

Soaring with an engine strapped to your back is faster than walking and more environmentally friendly than a 4x4

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Pixie Geldof and friends celebrate heritage at the Palm House, Kew

The event was organised by the World Monuments Fund

Evening Standard

PoW dogs and secret tunnels feature in Kew exhibition of great escapes

National Archives display in Kew includes record cards of prisoners who fled in mass breakout in 1944

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Dutch election | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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‘Cultural vandalism’: row as Kew Gardens and Natural History Museum plan to move collections out of London

Scientific specimens and research facilities set to be rehoused in Reading University science park, alongside British Museum archive

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Where to see autumn colour in London now, from royal parks to a particular row of riverside plane trees

Changing leaves are about to set the capital’s trees ablaze. George Hudson has the best spots to admire the colours

Evening Standard

Streets of purple haze: how the South American jacaranda became a symbol of Australian spring

Jacaranda season is beginning across Australia as an explosion of vivid blue spreads in a wave from north to south. We think of jacarandas as a signature tree of various Australian cities. Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth all feature avenues of them.

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Kew Gardens’ Alexandre Antonelli: ‘We may be losing species before we even notice them’

Ahead of the organisation’s report into the state of our flora and fungi, its director of science talks about his work as a biogeographer and how our diet can make a difference

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‘Mind-boggling’ palm that flowers and fruits underground thrills scientists

New species named Pinanga subterranea as Kew botanists admit they have no idea how its flowers are pollinated

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Hawthorn, Kew: ‘It aims to fill and soothe’ – restaurant review

This is fine dining, but not of the painful sort when, by course nine, you wonder when real dinner will get going

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Intense downpours in the UK will increase due to climate change – new study

In July 2021, Kew in London experienced a month’s rain in just three hours. Across the city, tube lines were suspended and stations closed as London experienced its wettest day in decades and flash floods broke out. Just under two weeks later, it happened again: intense downpours led to widespread…

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Victorian architecture’s lost giant, Decimus Burton, finally regains recognition

The designer of the glasshouses at Kew Gardens fell out of favour – but supporters of a new museum hope to change all that

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New Labour's woolly jumper bans and ‘ghastly’ away days revealed in archives

THE latest release of files from the National Archives in Kew have revealed new insights into the important business of government.

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‘Queen’s hedgehog’ fungus among 2022’s new discoveries recorded by Kew

Scientists at Royal Botanic Gardens say naming new species is part of global effort to protect Earth’s biodiversity

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Footage Shows A Melb Billionaire’s Dinner Guests Hid From Police Mid-Lockdown But No One Got Fined

Footage has emerged of Melbourne billionaire Anthony Pratt‘s dinner party during lockdown 2021 and, wouldn’t you know it, Victoria Police has ruled out taking any action against him.Police were called to the Kew mansion of the recycling and packaging billionaire on July 23, 2021 after neighbours dobbed him in for flouting…

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Police rule out action on party at billionaire’s mansion during Victorian lockdown

Officers attended the Kew residence of recycling magnate Anthony Pratt at the time but say further action impossible as ‘statute of limitations has expired’

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Melbourne’s eastern suburbs are ground zero in battle for Liberal party’s future

Hawthorn and Kew seen as vital seats for the Victorian Liberals, still reeling from their federal election rout

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Independent candidates take on high-profile Liberals in Victorian state election, but can the 'teal wave' be recreated?

The success of "teal" independents in blue-ribbon federal seats has spurred another wave of community independents in Victoria. But without a federal Liberal government to campaign against, will the teals have as much success at the local level?

Evening Standard

New Cold War papers show just how far Britain has come on LGBT issues

Today MI5 is releasing a massive number of its historical files into the National Archives at Kew. Among them are papers telling for the first time the inside story of its investigation of John Vassall — the notorious KGB spy in the Admiralty until his arrest in 1962.

Evening Standard

My London: Jeff Bridges

The Dude always goes straight from Heathrow to Kew Gardens, fancies a move to the London Eye and thinks our hash browns are things of wonder

The Independent UK

Prescott ‘did nothing wrong’ over Clapham flat fiasco, Blair told Tory MP

Files released by the National Archives in Kew reveal how the Prime Minister backed his deputy amid allegations of a conflict of interest.

The Independent UK

New giant waterlily and ‘botanical wonder of the world’ discovered in Kew

Scientists have found a new, unique species.

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