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The event was organised by the World Monuments Fund

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

Dutch election | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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…

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