Seeds Gallery
Available as Licensed Images. Choose your image, select your licence and download the media
Choose from 22 images in our Seeds collection.

World War II, Kew Gardens: Talk at the Demonstration plot about growing your own food
Sydney Albert Pearce, Assistant Curator of the Decorative Department, gives a talk at the Demonstration Plot in front of Kew Palace, 1940. At the outbreak of war, Pearce assumed supervision of the Garden's food plots and allotments. Many of the lawns were ploughed for crop use, and tomatoes were grown in parts of the glasshouses
© RBG KEW