gardening history

When botanists resembled a worldwide intelligence network

17 October 2026 9:00 am

At the height of the British Empire, our plant specialists were gathering information from every climate zone and returning it neatly classified to the centre at Kew

Gardening for pleasure and instruction

29 January 2022 9:00 am

On 23 May 1804, two months before his daughter’s wedding, John Coakley Lettsom threw open his estate in Camberwell. Some…