Kew Gardens is leaping into 2008 with the biggest display of spring flowers in the country. Over 5 million flowering bulbs will melt away the winter and carpet the beautiful open spaces of Kew with a riot of colour. Two million blue, white and mauve crocuses (Crocus vernus) will greet visitors as they enter the grand Victoria Gate entrance of the Gardens.
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The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art at Kew Gardens, opening in spring 2008, will be the first gallery in the world dedicated to botanical art and open to the public all year round. The gallery, designed by award-winning architects Walters and Cohen, will exhibit precious works of art from the collections of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Dr Shirley Sherwood, many of which have never been on public display before.
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Kew Botanical Gardens is leaping into 2008 with the biggest display of spring flowers in the country. Over 5 million flowering bulbs will melt away the winter and carpet the beautiful open spaces of Kew with a riot of colour. Two million blue, white and mauve crocuses (Crocus vernus) will greet visitors as they enter the grand Victoria Gate entrance of the Gardens.
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A unique design by the architects of the London Eye will be unveiled at Kew Botanical Garden next week. When it opens in May 2008 it will be the most ambitious public installation at Kew for two decades.
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Treat mum to a special treat on Mothering Sunday - lunch in the oak-panelled dining room at Wakehurst Palace, Kew's country garden in West Sussex. Bookings are now being taken for the special menu which will be available at one sitting only on Sunday 18th March, 2007.
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A wealth of information on the world of African plants is now available at the touch of a button. Today saw the launch of an innovative new initiative, Aluka, an international not-for-profit organization collaborating with institutions and individuals around the world to produce a digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.
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Each spring at Kew, Mother Nature shows off the best she has to offer with five million different flowering bulbs bursting into life across the Royal Botanic Gardens. Two million purple and white crocuses (Crocus vernus) create the Crocus Carpet, while drifts of daffodils line the Broadwalk and Chionodoxa form an unbelievably vibrant sea of blue.
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