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 ...

Experience a world of winter magic in Kew Gardens as our acclaimed light trail, Christmas at Kew, returns this festive season. Christmas at Kew is an unmissable opportunity to herald the start of the ...

Join Charles and Dave as they explore the difference between wild and cultivated roses, dive into their symbolism back to the ...

Plantasia, Kew’s summer festival celebrating the positive effects of plants, is underway. Researcher Olwen Grace highlights investigations in the Jodrell Laboratory on Aloe vera, one of the most ...

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 ...

Global species assessments, in which every extant species in a taxonomic group is systematically assessed, have been conducted only for very few plant groups such as cycads, conifers, mangroves and ...

Recently-released IUCN Red List assessments for slipper orchids from the temperate Northern Hemisphere show that a shocking 79% of species are threatened with extinction. Mike Fay, Head of Genetics ...

Crop diversity enhances resilience to climate change, pests, and diseases, as well as being of cultural value. However, ...

Passiflora or passion flower is a genus of more than 550 species which are members of the Passifloraceae family. The genus, which contains vines, lianas, shrubs and trees, is predominantly distributed ...

Join us at Kew Gardens for Kew MSc Open Day on 9 April 2025 (Wed) for a chance to find out more about our MSc programmes ...

Nature Heroes is a family-friendly way to get the children out of the house and connecting with nature during the school half-term. Whatever the weather, we can guarantee an exciting trail, packed ...

Plant hunters frequently travelled across the world to discover new plants for science. Discover some of their adventures here with stories from Kew's Archives. The Archives team at Kew has been ...