THE launch of Kew Gardens’ annual Orchid Festival was breathtaking this week. The spectacular event is themed around China, and 3,500 orchids are among the 6,000 plants packed into a giant ...
The long and productive relationship between London's Kew Gardens and scientific partners in China has been celebrated at the ...
A rare Royal Mint 50p coin has sold for more than £130 on eBay in Sussex, and it is not the only coin that could be worth a small fortune.
From Mughal ateliers to East India Company science, Flora Indica uncovers how Indian painters transformed botanical illustration, even as colonial knowledge systems erased their identities.
BRITS are being urged to check their change after the UK’s rarest 50p in circulation sold for a staggering 166 times its face ...
With a circulating mintage of just 200,000, the coin knocked the Kew Gardens 50p off the top spot, becoming the rarest 50p in ...
This genetic mothership is the central node in a nationwide network of institutions that are safeguarding the country's plant diversity.
GARDENERS are being urged to help map the UK’s daffodils and look out for rare pink variety Mrs R O Backhouse with links to a York family.