Rbg Kew Collection (page 3)

Galanthus nivalis Neil Fraser, snowdrop. Family: Amaryllidaceae

Galanthus elwesii var. monostictus, (One-spotted Elwes snowdrop). Family: Amaryllidaceae

Galanthus ikariae, snowdrop. Family: Amaryllidaceae

Galanthus gracilis, snowdrop. Family: Amaryllidaceae

Galanthus rizehensis, snowdrop. Family: Amaryllidaceae

Allium ursinum, Wild garlic flowers
Allium ursinum, wild garlic flowers. Family: Amaryllidaceae

Actinidia kolomikta. Family: Actinidiaceae. A climber with unusual, variegated leaves, splashed with pink and white, kolomikta vine has small flowers with a fragrance similar to that of

Millennium Seed Bank
The Millennium Seed Bank (MSB), Wakehurst Place

The Millennium Seedbank
The Millennium Seed Bank, Wakehurst Place. By storing the worlds seeds, the MIllennium Seed Bank (MSB) aims to provide an insurance policy against the extinction of plants in the wild

Wisteria at Wakehurst Mansion
Wisteria covering Wakehurst Mansion, RBG Kews estate in Sussex

The Henry Price Walled Garden, Wakehurst Place, Sussex

Pots and Containers, Wakehurst place
Gardening shop at Wakehurst Place. Wakehurst is the country estate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Loder Valley, Wakehurst
Loder Valley Nature Reserve, Wakehurst Place, Sussex. Opened in 1980, the focus of the Loder Valley Nature Reserve is on conservation of the plants and animals of the High Weald of Sussex

The Iris Dell, Wakehurst Place, Sussex. A raised wooden walkway guides visitors around this feature

Iris ensata, Japanese Flag iris in the Iris Dell at wakehurst Place, Sussex

Iris Dell with flowering azaleas, Wakehurst Place, Sussex. To the southeast of the Black Pond is a water body and waterfall surrounded by Japanese irises, maples and rhododendrons

Iris dell with pink azalea, Wakehurst place, Sussex

The Slips at Wakehurst Place

Azaleas in the Iris Dell, Wakehurst Place, Sussex

Crataegus intricata, Copenhagen hawthorn or thicket hawthorn. Family ROSACEAE. Photographed at Wakehurst Place, West Sussex. Ref: 31793, North America

Wakehurst Mansion. Wakehurst Place is a National Trust site, managed by Kew Gardens. It is situated in West Sussex, set in 465 acres of country estate and boasts ornamental gardens

Princess of Wales conservatory, RBG Kew

Water Lily house interior, panorama

Woodland at Wakehurst: Wakehurst Place is a National Trust site, managed by Kew Gardens. It is situated in West Sussex, set in 465 acres of country estate and boasts ornamental gardens

Pagoda and Temperate house
Temperate House (r) and Pagoda, RBG Kew

Rock Garden, RBG Kew
The Rock Garden, RBG Kew, Alpine House (right) and Princess of Wales conservatory (background)

Castanea sativa, sweet chestnut tree in the arboretum, RBG Kew, autumn

Necklace of spices
Necklace with beads of Coix, Dioclea, Adenanthera, Myristica and Mucuna - cinnamon bark, cloves and nutmeg. Sourced in Grenada, Spain. RBG Kew Economic Botany Collection, Catalogue Number: 78869

Female gardener working in the orchid house, during World War II
Female gardener working in the orchid house, RBG Kew, during World War II

Botanist Mary Ruth Fussel Jackson Taylor, RBG Kew, 1939
Botanist Mary Ruth Fussel Jackson Taylor, working in the Herbarium, RBG Kew, 1939

Women gardeners, RBG Kew, World War II
Women gardeners were again employed at Kew during World War II, after an interval of nearly a quarter of a century. Fourteen women were enrolled onto the staff in 1940

Potato tuber slices being dried in trays of peat, WWII
Supplies of seed potatoes were insufficient to demand during WWII, so Wiliam Campbell, Curator of Kew Gardens devised a method of growing potatoes using slices from the tuber instead

William Turrill in gas protection suit, spring 1940
Here, WIlliam Turrill models the full gas protection suit usually worn by Air Raid Wardens. In the spring of 1940 a Kew Gardens Platoon was formed

Vegetables cultivated on Kew Green, 1917
Vegetables cultivated in allotments on Kew Green to combat food shortages, 1917, during World War I

Charles Metcalf became Keeper of the Jodrell Laboratory in 1930. Here, he is identifying a timber specimen

Dr R. Melville, scientist at Kew, 1940 s
Dr R. Melville, scientist at Kew, working under Dr Hutchinson, Keeper of Museums, during the 1940 s, is seen here scraping pollen onto glass from a South African marigold

Jodrell Laboratory staff, 1963, with Charles Metcalf (Keeper of the Jodrell laboratory) centre

The Mounting Room
Two members of staff working int the Mounting Room, Kew Gardens. Once collected specimens have been dried and pressed, they are mounted onto a herbarium sheet of archival quality paper with an

William Thiselton Dyer, Director of Kew for thirty years from 1875

Sir William Thiselton Dyer in court dress with his Order of St Michael and St George, on being knighted in 1899

William Thiselton Dyer, Director of Kew Gardens
William Thiselton Dyer (1843-1928), Director of Kew Gardens 1885 to 1905 after the retirement of Joseph Hooker

Felled tree for Kew Flagstaff, British Columbia, 1914
British COlumbia 1914: The felled tree which was to form the great flagstaff at RBG Kew from 1919 to 1959. Made from a Douglas fir

The Great Flagstaff, RBG Kew, ca. 1900-1905
Photograph of The Great Flagstaff at RBG Kew, flying the Union Flag, ca. 1900-1905. It stood until August 2007

Kew Flag pole en route from Vancouver, 1915
The great Kew flagstaff is seen here en route from Vancouver aboard the SS Merionethshire, arriving at Tilbury Docks on 29 December 1915

Aircraft emergency landing, Kew, 1938
On 5th January 1938 an aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing near the Palm House, Kew. It had been pulling an advertising banner

Stereograph, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
This stereograph of the interior of one of the T-Range glasshouses shoes a sign requesting visitors to keep to the right and to refrain from touching the plants

Kew Green, Richmond, at the end of the August Bank Holiday, 1926
Kew Green, Richmond, at the end of the August Bank Holiday celebrations, 1926. William Dallimore, Keeper of the Museums of Economic Botany, Kew Gardens, described a Bank Holiday in the 1890 s

Amorphophallus titanum flowering, 1901
The Titan arum, Amorphophallus titanum is known as the corpse flower in its native Indonesia because of the rancid smell, described by Curtiss Botanical magazine as a mixture of rotten fish

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