Across the globe, bees and other important pollinators are in trouble. Their numbers are declining, and that’s bad news for ...

Notable locations include Fortnum & Mason and The Ritz hotel, as well as Kew Gardens, Buckingham Palace and Lambeth Palace. The two Clarence House hives are home to more than 90,000 bees and produce ...

Starting off as a princess' pleasure garden, Kew Royal Botanical Gardens was transformed during the reign of Queen Victoria from a royal collection into not only a botanical garden open to the public, ...

Orchid Festival at Kew Gardens runs Saturday 1 February-Sunday 2 March 2025 in the Princess of Wales Conservatory. Entry is included with a standard admission ticket to Kew Gardens. £1 entry is ...

Christmas at Kew is a highlight of the UK’s festive calendar. Every year the light trail draws in thousands of guests who come to see the gardens’ over 12,000 trees lit up in stunning ...

The report by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ( RBG Kew) was spurred on by the drought of 2022 which saw the loss of more than 400 trees at the 320-acre gardens in west London.

Bees Needs Week (8th July to 14th July, 2024) is an annual event coordinated by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), with the aim of supporting pollinator health and diversity ...

At 17 metres tall, The Hive is a stunning piece of contemporary art and – understandably – one of the most photographed features in the entire gardens. 1000 LED lights glow and a musical symphony help ...

The future had overtaken the present and, in that moment, consigned it to the past. Niccy Hallifax, director of the 2025 festival, at the Skerne Bridge in Darlington. Picture: Sarah Caldecott Now ...

Kew Gardens also commissioned artists LiLi K Bright and Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone to create Reverberations, two spoken word pieces that are played throughout Temperate House.

A report from the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) at Kew found that the City of London—where many law firms with bee hives are based—was a 'yellow area', meaning the available forage was ...

Elsewhere, the Hive – a piece of contemporary artwork at Kew with 1,000 LED lights that recreates life inside a beehive – will feature in the trail for the first time. Creative studio Pitaya will also ...