Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Collection (page 2)

Taxodium distichum, Swamp Cypress
1972-10972, TAXODIACEAE, Taxodium distichum, Swamp Cypress, SE USA - Deciduous conifer making a medium-sized tree with a conical crown, fibrous red-brown bark and soft, feathery

Ginkgo leaves in autumn

Fraxinus excelsior, Golden Ash
1871-40118 BOOT, OLEACEAE, Fraxinus excelsior, Golden Ash

Ginkgo biloba, Maidenhair Tree
2983-6106 BECX 73, GINKGOACEAE, Ginkgo biloba, Maidenhair Tree

Juglens nigra, Alburyensis
1960-42701 SXTN, JUGLANDACEAE, Juglens nigra, Alburyensis

Scadoxus multiflorus s. katherinae
1993-3006 CATO, AMARYLLIDACEAE, Scadoxus multiflorus s. katherinae

Bougainvillea X buttiana Enid Lancaster
1973-20495, NYTAGINACEAEA, Bougainvillea X buttiana Enid Lancaster

Tibouchina urvilleana, Glory Bush, Growing inside the Temperate house at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Cornus nuttallii x florida
CORNACEAE, Cornus nuttallii x florida (1969-12748)

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

Some of Kews female staff, 1942
Some of Kews female staff are shown here in 1942. Back row (l to r) Jessie F Pedgrift, Violet M Clark, Jean E Sharps, Freda Mundy

Female gardener, RBG Kew, World War II
Preparing terracotta pots for planting. Women gardeners were employed at Kew during World War II, after an interval of nearly a quarter of a century

Women gardeners at Kew, 1939-1945
Female gardener in springtime, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, WWII (1939-1945)

Nymphaea Piyalarp
2008-933 PRWA, NYMPHACEAE. Nymphaea Piyalarp

Nymphaea thermarum is the smallest waterlily in the world, and the only Nymphaea to grow in damp mud rather than water - This ├ä├ÂÔêÜ├æÔêÜÔëñthermal├ä├ÂÔêÜ├æÔêÜa waterlily

Acacia retinodes
1978-6209, FABACEAE, LEGUMINOSAE, MIMOSOIDEAE, Acacia retinodes, Australia

Commidendrum rugosum
1970-4387 KENR, COMPOSITAE, Commidendrum rugosum

Tibouchina Urvilleana
053-82-00274, MELASTOMATACEAE, Tibouchina Urvilleana, Brazil

John Wilfred Sutch, born 8 November 1923, worked as a gardener in the T-Range, Palm House and Arboretum. At the age of 18 he left Kew to join the army

Observation post, RBG Kew, 1939
Observation Post in Cambridge Cottage Garden, RBG Kew, autumn 1939. Observation posts, where soldiers were placed to monitor possible enemy movement, were assembled throughout the country

Sandbags outside the Herbarium, Kew, 1939
Sandbags protect some of the lower windows and doors at the Herbarium and telephone room, RBG Kew, 1939, during World War II

Nymphaea Piyatarp
2008-933, NYMPHAEACEAE, Nymphaea " Piyatarp"

Nymphaea carpentariae x violacea

Nymphaea Rattana Ubol

Nymphaea Carlas Sonshine
2013-477 SUTIM, Nymphaea Carlas Sonshine, NYMPHAEACEAE

Nymphaea Bimini Twist
2013-474 SUTM, NYMPHAEACEAE, Nymphaea Bimini Twist

Nymphaea Carlos Magdalena
2007-1802 KKNO - Nymphaea Carlos Magdalena, NYMPHAEACEAE

Nymphaea violacea x colorata

Poroporo, Bullibulli Solanum laciniatum
SOLANACEAE Poroporo, Bullibulli Solanum laciniatum, 2006-1844 NZSI 192

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