Join Iain Parkinson, Wakehurst’s Head of Landscape & Horticulture as he reflects on the beauty and importance of meadows.

Technology like LiDAR isn’t just used for scientific research though: it’s also the magic behind some incredible art. Of the ...

Orchid seeds are spread by the wind, which is why they're so tiny. Varying when each seed germinates protects the population ...

Join Kew botanical horticulturist Vicki Thompson to discover where snowdrops originally come from, exactly who distributes ...

We often think of insects buzzing around our flower beds or meadows, but pollen and nectar also come from trees, which only have a tiny footprint in our landscapes. Whether insect-pollinated or ...

If you can't get to the gardens, let us bring the gardens to you. Travel to the tropics, the desert and the mountains without leaving the house with our seasonal footage and a sneak peek at our ...

Get your head around its achievements with our handy list of 25 facts to celebrate 25 years of the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) ...

1) Ghost palm of Borneo published after 90 years – Plectocomiopsis hantu It can take several years to describe a new species, and this first example is no exception. Although known to the local ...

Sir John Herschel: The inventor of cyanotypes Sir John Herschel began by experimenting with sun prints (or photograms). These were one of the earliest forms of photography and involved laying an ...

Violets Possibly one of the oldest queer symbols, violets have been linked to lesbian love for over two and a half thousand years – as long as the very origins of the word. The poet Sappho lived on ...

Case in point Example 1: Tied together - Climate changes, flowering times shift Research by Calinger et al., gives us a perfect example of the kind of insights herbarium specimens can provide us in ...

2. They don’t have roots Unlike most other plants, mosses don’t have roots. Instead they have rhizoids, which are small hairlike structures. Their main function is anchoring the plant to rock, bark or ...