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  • A blue and green iridescent hummingbird drinking from an orange flower
    12 October 2024

    What is colour?

    Ellen McHale, Eddie Johnston
  • Great Pagoda at Kew
    4 October 2024

    Travel Asia at Kew

    Katie Avis-Riordan, Eddie Johnston
  • A view of treetops from below, showing distinct gaps between adjacent tree canopies
    2 October 2024

    The dark matter of botany

    Robin Horton
  • A weird fungi called octopus stinkhorn (Clathrus archeri) also known as devil's fingers with five red tentacles covered in thick black fluid.
    2 October 2024

    13 creepy plants and fungi for Halloween

    Grace Brewer, Eddie Johnston
  • Fallen yellow autumn leaves at Kew
    1 October 2024

    Best things to do at Kew this autumn

    Ellen McHale, Kate Dickinson, Ellen Reid, Ellie Wilson
  • A herbarium orchid specimen gets its barcode scanned by a digitiser
    30 September 2024

    Orchid collection digitised! What interesting orchids have we uncovered?

    Paul Figg
  • Child walking in wellies on crispy brown leaves
    30 September 2024

    10 best things to do at Wakehurst this autumn

  • A person on a paramotor in the sky over faraway hills
    Play
    25 September 2024

    Watch: Extreme botany - paramotorists soar across Peru desert

    Lydia Shellien-Walker
  • A view over a cloud forest in the Dominican Republic
    20 September 2024

    Forgotten magnolia forests of Hispaniola

    Silvia Bacci, Dr Diana Carolina Acosta Rojas, Michael Way
  • Wooden furniture and play tables in the Mud Kitchen at Wakehurst
    17 September 2024

    Behind the scenes: Creating the Children's & Community Garden

    Carmen Sheridan
  • A cluster of pink magnolia flowers opened on a tree in front of a blue sky
    Play
    10 September 2024

    Magnolia: Flowers from the age of the dinosaurs

    Eddie Johnston
  • Close up of a poinsettia, a leafy plant with deep red leaves in amongst ivy, both of which are well known holiday plants
    5 September 2024

    12 plants of Christmas

    Ellen McHale, Katherine Young