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Welcome to the gardeners' blog

Welcome to the gardeners' blog

Across six palaces, dozens of expert gardeners work all year round to maintain the world-famous landscapes that belong to our sites. On the gardeners’ blog, hear directly from our experts about how they design, plant, care for and maintain the historic formal gardens and parkland at Hampton Court, Hillsborough Castle, Kew Palace and more.

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Take a tour of Kew's Kitchen Garden

Take a tour of Kew's Kitchen Garden

September 10, 2019
Originally a small residential garden, the Kitchen Garden at Kew Palace was created and ...
Displaying Queen Mary ll’s Exoticks Collection

Displaying Queen Mary ll’s Exoticks Collection

August 28, 2019
You may well have heard of Queen Mary II’s Exoticks Collection (seventeenth century spelling) ...
Dahlia season at Hampton Court Palace

Dahlia season at Hampton Court Palace

August 14, 2019
 July marked the start of the dahlia season, but it is as the days ...
Agave Victoriae Reginae in the Sunken Garden

Plant hunters: Victorian plants are brought to Kensington Palace

August 8, 2019
As we all know from our history lessons at school, the Victorian era in ...
Herbs through history: from the Tudors to today

Herbs through history: from the Tudors to today

July 29, 2019
Central to the kitchen garden at Hampton court is its collection of herbs, and ...
Wildflowers bloom at Kensington Palace

Wildflowers bloom at Kensington Palace

July 5, 2019
After a lot of hard work this winter by the gardens team at Kensington ...
What's growing on in the kitchen garden this year?

What's growing on in the kitchen garden this year?

May 10, 2019
A view of the kitchen garden. In 2014, a reconstructed ...
A tulip spectacle in the Hampton Court gardens

A tulip spectacle in the Hampton Court gardens

April 11, 2019
Whenever I think of tulips I can’t help but start singing that lovely song ...
Falling in love with Auriculas: the most demanding and beautiful flowers in our collection

Falling in love with Auriculas: the most demanding and beautiful...

April 1, 2019
Primula auricula are the acknowledged ‘divas’ of the plant world. Originating from the alpine meadows ...
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