Throughout the year ahead at Kew Gardens visitors can enjoy a range of new events, exhibitions and horticultural highlights.

From April 2025, Kew Gardens will showcase the 'spectacle' and 'resonance' of trees with an extensive programme across the Gardens. 

Starting with a brand-new gallery exhibition in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art, Kew say The Power of Trees will celebrate the magnificent and inspiring giants, exploring how they continue to inspire artists around the world.

A video installation Horizontal-Vaakasuora by contemporary Finnish artist Eija Liisa Ahtila will sit alongside a new series of works by the artists of the Bedgebury Pinetum Florilegium Society, showcasing the stunning detail and beauty of Bedgebury National Pinetum's conifer collection.

From early May 2025, Of the Oak, a large-scale installation at Kew Gardens created by the experiential artist collective Marshmallow Laser Feast will mark Kew's first-ever outdoor digital commission.

Showcasing one of the Gardens' most 'magnificent' trees, The Lucombe Oak, in an entirely new light, this new installation will take visitors on a multisensory journey, using extensive real-world data to untangle the invisible magic at work within each leaf, branch and root of this astonishing tree.

Visitors will explore a deep connection to the tree's history and resilience, as they peer through its characteristics and learn about its role in the ecosystem.

From summer onwards, we will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Millennium Seed Bank (MSB) at Wakehurst, Kew's wild botanic garden in Sussex.

Home to the world's largest collection of seeds from wild plants with 2.4 billion seeds representing over 39,000 different species of the world's storable seeds, it is the most diverse wild plant species genetic resource on Earth, safeguarding wild plant diversity through vital global partnerships.

For Wakehurst visitors, the summer will offer a chance to show the interconnectivity between humanity and horticulture, shining the spotlight on the global partnerships that have helped to build the MSB into what it is today.

Through a series of art in the form of ceramics, AR visualisation, soundscapes and more, visitors will be encouraged to draw a connection between themselves and the inspiring science taking place at Wakehurst.

In Summer 2025, Kew Gardens will unveil its new Carbon Garden, a bespoke landscape created to highlight carbon's essential role as a building block of all life on Earth.

This garden will explore the invisible cycle of carbon through soils, plants, fungi and us, emphasising the role plants and fungi play, as our allies, in climate regulation.

Created by Kew's horticulturists, scientists and designers, this innovative space explores how plants capture carbon dioxide and provide nature-based solutions towards sustainability, inspiring hope and personal action.

From late September 2025, attention will turn to the world of fashion when visitors to Kew's iconic Temperate House will be able to uncover how plants and fungi are helping to create sustainable solutions with Material World, a six-week festival encompassing a series of innovative installations, surrounded by some of the rarest plants on the planet.

With a central installation from Australian Nigerian artist Nnenna Okore, Material World will also include a series of spectacular After Hours events, encompassing everything from sustainable shopping to interactive fashion displays.

In autumn 2025, Kew's Shirley Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art will be transformed to showcase two contrasting complementary exhibitions connecting traditional Indian Art with contemporary art practice. 

For the first time, Flora Indica will put on public display a selection of the most outstanding works from Kew's South Asian botanical illustration collections.

Featuring a series of stunning art commissioned by British botanists and created by Indian artists, this landmark exhibition will recover the lost histories of these extraordinary works, tell the stories of forgotten artists and reinterpret the fluctuating history of these astonishing collections.

Alongside this, a tandem exhibition, Botanical Tales and Seeds of Empire, by renowned contemporary artists The Singh Twins will showcase a selection of new works, fusing traditional Indian and contemporary Western influences in their signature 'Past-Modern' style. 

Other highlights throughout the year include the return of the ever-popular Orchid festival in February 2025, a celebration of blossom throughout the spring and seasonal events including Christmas at Kew and Glow Wild.

New horticultural highlights at Kew Gardens also include the Winter Garden and the Wild Rose Garden, which will be in full bloom from June onwards.

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