Kew Gardens

The name of that old flame who kissed you in Kew Gardens way back when is on the tip of your tongue. Your memory is atrocious.

I went and had a look round Kew Gardens with the botanist Joyce Singleton; it was a bit of a busman 's holiday for her.

With the help of Kew Gardens - where Hooker's father was director - shipments of trees were to be sent to Ascension.

Professor Steve Hopper, the director of Kew Gardens, says the prime objective was to ensure that none of the trees were damaged.

Yet more flowers - this time at the Tropical Extravaganza in Kew Gardens in London.

The largest Arum at Kew gardens weighs 200lb and grows at a staggering rate of a quarter of an inch an hour.

Now, the Chinese landscape is coming to London in a cooperation between the British Museum and Kew Gardens.

Luckily its seeds were kept in storage - and were used by Carlos Magdalena to regrow the plant at Kew Gardens - just outside London.

Aerial view of Palm House, Kew Gardens, London.

Geoff Kent : "The perfect way to spend a comfortable autumnal afternoon in Kew Gardens. . . if you are a duck that is"

It is the first festival of Kew Gardens' Biodiversity Year and features over 7, 000 tropical plants including more than 3, 000 orchids.

Kew Gardens is an old and famous research centre for plants in the Lon