Lates at Kew Gardens

Leave the winter cold outside and enter one of the most seductive, steamy glasshouses at Kew Gardens after dark, bejewelled with hundreds and thousands of tropical flowers, for three intimate evenings of botanical cocktails, interactive workshops and scintillating talks on nature’s alluring colours, scents and shapes.

Spend a winter’s evening in a unique London location, Kew Gardens’ steamy Princess of Wales Conservatory, during its 2015 festival of tropical flowers, Alluring Orchids. Enter the glasshouse after the rest of the Gardens have closed, find yourself surrounded by an explosion of colour and, armed with a botanical No.3 Gin cocktail or two from the Gin Garden, explore stunning displays of orchids, bromeliads, and other tropical flowers, beautifully lit up after dark.

Encounter a series of art and scent workshops designed to show you how plants use colour, shape and scent to attract their pollinators. Try your hand at botanical illustration with help from a specialist artist, learn the steps to create your own origami flowers or even concoct your own alluring scent to take home... Scintillating short talks from Kew experts will also inspire you to look at your flowering plants at home in a different way.

The first Kew Gardens ‘Lates’ are like nothing else in London; An incredible chance to experience a Kew Glasshouse after dark, where entertainment will meet beauty, art and botany.