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Eleanor Morland, Gertude Cope and Alice Hutchings, Kew gardeners, 1898

Clitoria ternatea, L.

Nymphaea rubra, R.

John Haverfield (c.1741-1820)

237. Gardening at Nainee Tal, India.

Marianne North painting in South Africa, circa 1883

Marianne North at her Easel

Marianne North by Julia Margaret Cameron

Tableau physique des Andes et pays voisins - Physical Tableau of the Andes

Medusagyne oppositifolia

Neoregelia rosea

Poppy (Papaver), by Kan'en Iwasaki

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Clitoria ternatea, L.

Original illustration from Curtis's Botanical Magazine, published as plate 1542, 1st April 1813. Watercolour and pencil on paper. According to Curtis's Botanical Magazine this species is a native of the East Indies & of Cochin-China as well as Egypt. Apparently the seeds were first brought to Europe from Ternate, one of the Moluccan Islands. This specimen was communicated by Mr Anderson, from the collection of James Vere, Esq. at Kensington Gore, in July 1812.

Coffea arabica, coffee

RBG Kew expedition to Cameroon

Fish Tongues used to grate Guarana

The Square, with the Market and Church, Jamestown, 1810

Carl von Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and taxonomist

Barron's Tree Transplanter

Davidia involucrata Plantae Davidianae by Franchet, 1888

Cherry walk Panorama with the Temperate house

Nymphaea ‘Siam Pink’, waterlily

Horsebridge Wood

658. Distant View of Mount Fujiyama, Japan, and Wistaria.

Prunus mume

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RBG Kew expedition to Cameroon

RBG Kew expedition to Cameroon, 1995. Between 1995-2003, several RBG Kew-National Herbarium of Cameroon (HNC) teams combed the forest, supported by local conservation NGOs and Earthwatch volunteers. Identifications of critically endangered plants such as Kupea martinetugei (Triuridaceae) were made by both HNC and Kew specialists.

Trichoglottis smithii

Cochineal beetle harvest, by Eadweard Muybridge

Snowdrop, galanthus nivalis

Iris stocksii

Women gardeners at Kew, 1939-1945

Palm House Pond, RBG Kew, winter