Summer at Kew Gardens - See the World this Summer

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey
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This event ended on Saturday 15th of October 2011
Admission
Adults £13.90, Concessions £11.90, Children FREE
Location

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey

Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Kew Gardens 0.49 miles

Kew up to see the World this Summer!

This year, we are inviting you to pack your bags and head down to Kew Gardens, where you can experience those far flung climes without having to venture even as far as the airport. From the heat of the Brazilian rainforest to the cool of the Alpine region, and from the elegance of Japanese architecture to the arid wilderness of the desert regions, a trip to Kew will bring you climates and regions from around the world without the strain on your bank balance.

What's On? Summer Festival 2011 Programme at Kew Gardens!

An Art Lover’s Heaven…

Hard Rain
Saturday 14 May – Sunday 25 September

This thought provoking and highly topical photographic exhibition will be on display on Kew’s Broadwalk. The exhibition is in two parts; it opens with the Hard Rain banner, consisting of 43 photographs illustrating each line of Bob Dylan’s ‘A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall’.

The Second part is entitled ‘What’ll You Do Now?’ and explores, through images and text, proven solutions via technologies, development projects, and lifestyle approaches to the problems illustrated in Hard Rain that can be scaled up and widely adopted.

International Garden Photographer of the Year
Saturday 14 May – Sunday 25 September

This is the fourth year that Kew will be hosting this renowned outdoor photographic exhibition featuring amateur and professional entries of digital garden photography. Visitors will be able to view approximately 100 enlarged photographs and admire the photographic skill, composition, vibrant colours and specialised garden shots all displayed in this on-site outdoor gallery.

Plants in Peril
Saturday 25 June – Sunday 16 October

Over 60 contemporary paintings will be on show in The Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, mostly executed by South African artists. The unique and exciting flora has stimulated many artists to paint extraordinary strelitzias, protea and cycads or their exquisite lilies and fire ephemerals. The small area of the Cape of Good Hope is home to thousands of species, many of them established now as cultivated plants in other parts of the world like the ubiquitous pelargonium.

Also on display will be some of the original paintings for a new book ‘The Smallest Kingdom’ by Mike Fraser with illustrations by Liz Fraser, which details the intricate interlinking life styles of plants and animals on the Cape.

Guided Tours around ‘The World’…

Worlds within Kew
FREE
Explore one of four regions: East Asia, rainforests, mountains or desert and semi arid.
Sat 14 May – Sun 25 September, daily at 12noon and 2.30pm
Tours start inside Victoria Plaza
(Tours last one hour, please register 15 minutes before tour start time)


Hands-on sessions – Explorers past and present
FREE
Find out about intrepid explorers from the past and how they are linked to Kew’s current Scientists, their explorations and research.
Sun 29 May – Sun 25 September, every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday 2pm to 4pm
Secluded Garden Glasshouse

A Horticultural Treat…

A taste of Australia…

Admission free, British Museum Forecourt
21 April – 16 October 2011
Australia Landscape is the fourth landscape in a five-year partnership programme involving the British Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which celebrates the shared vision of both institutions to strengthen cultural understanding and support biodiversity conservation across the world. The landscape will be located in the forecourt of the British Museum, and will transit from the vegetation of Eastern Australia through the arid desert covering the southern third of the Northern Territory and the North East corner of South Australia; culminating in a western Australian granite outcrop showcasing unique and highly threatened flora.

Explore and enjoy!

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