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.
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Kew Gardens has its own constabulary, which they have the power to arrest you.
from 401: No Such Thing As Scandalnavia, 2021-11-26 at 00:31:59 · 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
For breakfast, isn't it? Yeah. We need to move on soon, guys, to our next fact. Can I quickly mention, well, I was reading just a few things about Q Gardens, generally. It's a pretty amazing place outside of the plants that they have there. They've got bits of, so in the 19th century, London Bridge was sold to America, right? All of it was shipped over, except for quite a few chunky granite blocks, which were part of the bridge.
401: No Such Thing As Scandalnavia, 2021-11-26 · listen
I read a bit of advice saying you should chuck away your lufa pretty much every week, which feels like you're going through so many loophers. Yeah. The three packs should last year about a month. That's too many. Yeah. Loophers are quite long. I've seen one at Q Gardens and it's much longer than a lufo you put in the bath. Maybe you just cut a bit off. Maybe it grows back like celery. Yeah. Maybe it does that. We're not sure.
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