Plant specimens are preserved at the Kew Garden Spirit Collection. Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
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Built in 1852, the Waterlily House features a wide range of exotic aquatic plant species. Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
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Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
Paola Navone for Barovier & Toso
Paola Navone for Barovier & Toso
Paola Navone for Barovier & Toso
Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
Paola Navone for Barovier & Toso
There are more than 14,000 trees planted in Kew Gardens. Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
An 18m-high Xstrata Treetop Walkway, which gives visitors the opportunity to explore the tree canopy and provides a bird’s-eye view across the gardens to the London skyline. Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
A rare 18th century book containing nature prints is displayed at the Herbarium library. Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
There are about 220 scientists working for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
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Conservator Eleanor Hasler (left) restores a painting at the Marianne North Conservation Studio. Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
The garden’s Herbarium holds more than 330 specimens collected by Charles Darwin. Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
The garden’s DNA Bank contains more than 22,000 samples of plant genomic DNA.
Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank Partnership has trained more than 1200 people in seed conservation. Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
Dried and pressed plant specimens fill the shelves in the garden’s Herbarium facility. Photography by Peter Macdiarmid.
