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 · 12 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 31: No Such Thing As A Snake In My Pie, 2014-10-18 at 00:23:44 · read transcript
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You turn the pillow over and the other side's even hotter. Time for our final fact of the show, and that is Andy Murray. Hello, my fact is that a couple of botanists from Q Gardens recently checked a £1.29 bag of porcini mushrooms from the supermarket, and they found three species which were previously unknown to science. That's really cool. They thought they'd run it through a DNA sequencer.
31: No Such Thing As A Snake In My Pie, 2014-10-18 · listen
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 Q Gardens. He was around there with two other people, one called Thunberg and another one called Lady Anne Monson. Lady Anne Monson's really interesting. She was a great granddaughter of Charles II. She was described as a very superior whist player and a remarkable lady botanist.
No Such Thing As Scandalnavia, 2021-11-26 · listen
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.
554: No Such Thing As A Dragonfish At The Opticians, 2024-10-24 · listen
Did you see anyone while you were there sitting on the benches, looking at their watch, going, they said they'd meet me at London Bridge. I don't understand. I want there to be one person. They have their own police force in Q Gardens. Q Gardens has its own constabulary, which they have the power to arrest you. Dan, you got very lucky, actually, with your, you know, watch. Can you be arrested for licking your hand after you've touched a plant? I didn't licked my hand.
401: No Such Thing As Scandalnavia, 2021-11-26 · listen
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