Kew Gardens
About Kew Gardens
Kew Gardens is a botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collections in the world". Founded in 1759, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its living collections include some of the 27,000 taxa curated by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, while the herbarium, one of the largest in the world, has over 8.5 million preserved plant and fungal specimens. The library contains more than 750,000 volumes, and the illustrations collection contains more than 175,000 prints and drawings of plants. It is one of London's top tourist attractions and is a World Heritage Site.
On the show — 6 mentions total
It's a plant called Encephalartos Altensteini, and it's in the Palm House at Kew Gardens, which is one of the really, really warm greenhouses. It weighs a ton, literally it weighs one ton, and it's four metres high, and it was collected in 1774.
from No Such Thing As Scandalnavia, 2021-11-26 at 00:22:02 · read transcript
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This has become a big thing since Covid and I remember when we were playing on a previous tour, we were playing Richmond in London and and I went to Kew Gardens beforehand, and I saw a lady go up and give a massive hug to a tree, and it looked so nice.
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I'm supposed to do something now. Is it approach them? Shake their hands and lick it? It was in South Africa that he found this plant, right? The one that's in Kew Gardens. He was around there with two other people, one called Thumburg and another one called Lady Ann Monson. Lady Ann Monson was really interesting. She was the great granddaughter of Charles II. She was described as a very superior wist player and a remarkable lady botanist.
401: No Such Thing As Scandalnavia, 2021-11-26 · listen
I read a bit of advice saying you should chuck away your loofah pretty much every week, which feels like you're going through so many loofahs. The three-pack should last you about a month. That's too many. But loofahs are quite long. I've seen one at Kew Gardens and it's much longer than a loofah you put in the bath. Maybe you just cut a bit off, maybe it grows back like celery, just take the end off it. Maybe it does that. We're not sure.
319: No Such Thing As 19th Century Feudal Japanese Monopoly, 2020-05-01 · listen
Okay. Here is a fact from Jennifer Neal. Jennifer writes about a species of fungi found in the fungarium at Kew Gardens. It does not grow naturally anywhere else in the world. Cool.
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