KEW Gardens is one of the most important botanical gardens in the world, with over 50,000 living plants. The London ...

London may be a sprawling metropolis, but it’s also a garden lover’s paradise. With more than 3,000 parks and green spaces, the capital offers everything from manicured royal gardens to secret urban ...

LONDON — Britain’s royal couple celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew today, planting trees much as they did a half-century ago. The metasequoia Prince Philip planted in ...

Emperor Naruhito is touring the famous botanic gardens this week as part of a state visit to Britain with his wife, Empress Masako. By Megan Specia Megan Specia reported from London, where she ...

A Flemish merchant built it. Mad King George was confined to it. And Queen Victoria’s mother refused to live in it. Now, for the first time in 10 years, you can visit Kew Palace when it reopens to the ...

The £6.6m restoration of London's Kew Palace, launched in March 2004 by the late Sir Nigel Mobbs, was completed last week when the doors were opened to the public. Mobbs, who was chairman of Slough ...

THE area occupied by the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, as we know them to-day, is mainly the result of the union of two demesnes, both of them famous in a horticultural sense long before they came to ...

Sarah Fox received funding from the British Academy. Picture the scene: a cosy but grand rural retreat. A long mahogany table is dressed for Christmas with evergreen foliage. Flickering flames in a ...