K.M.I.S. Kew Mutual Improvement Society
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Horticultural
Lectures

2008/2009 Season

About the KMIS
2008/2009 Lectures
The Team
Getting to Kew
Contact

Cosmos. © Dan Leighton
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Welcome!

Lectures: Mondays, 6.00pm
Venue:
Jodrell Laboratory Lecture Theatre, Kew
Jodrell Gate Entrance Map
Admission: £2 (£10.00 season ticket)

Tickets sold on the evening, on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note we do not take advance bookings.

 
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September 2008

Monday 22 September
Healthy Horticulture? Victorian Public Parks
Letta Jones, Landscape Horticulturist & Lecturer

Monday 29 September
The University of Oxford Botanic Garden
Timothy Walker, Director Oxford Botanic Garden

 
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October 2008

Monday 6 October
Tasmania - A Botanical Wonderland
Tim Stretton, Kew Diploma Student

Monday 13 October
Not Just for Christmas - Hollies for the Year-Round Garden
Christopher Bailes, Curator RHS Rosemoor

Monday 20 October
Kew’s Alpine House - What’s The Point?
Katie Price, Alpine House and Woodland RBG Kew

 
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November 2008

Monday 3 November
Seed Banking in Northern Chile
Joe Atkin, Kew Diploma Student

Monday 10 November
Guerilla Gardening - Gardening Without Boundaries
Richard Reynolds, Guerilla Gardener

Monday 17 November
The Bicentenary Glasshouse
Jim Gardiner, Curator RHS Wisley

Monday 24 November
British Meadows: Conservation and Re-creation
Alwyn Craven, Kew Diploma Student

 
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December 2008

Monday 1 December
The Tropical Touch - Limbe Botanical Garden, Cameroon
David Alicha, Kew Diploma Student

Monday 8 December
The Woodland Year - Life of an English Forest Dweller in the C21st
Ben Law, Conservationist

 
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January 2009 Monday 5 January
Rodrigues: Horticulture, Conservation and Aliens
Tessa Mills, Kew Diploma Student

Monday 12 January
Medicinal Plants in the Home
Jekka McVicar, Herb Expert, Writer and Broadcaster

Monday 19 January
Cymbidium - Their Cultivation in China
Mei Leng Lim, Kew Diploma Student

Monday 26 January
Ice and Fire - Oregon and California
Emma Crawforth, Kew Diploma Student

 
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February 2009 Monday 2 February
Winfield House, Residence of the US Ambassador
Stephen Crisp, Head Gardener US Embassy

Monday 9 February
Contemporary Landscapes and Gardens
Martha Schwartz, Landscape Architect

Monday 23 February
Bulbs of Kyrgyzstan
Patrick Hayes, Kew Diploma Student

 
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March 2009 Monday 2 March
Extirpation of Virginias’ Carnivores
Craig Rudman, Kew Diploma Student

Monday 9 March
The Trees that made Britain
Tony Kirkham, Head of Arboretum RBG Kew

Monday 16 March
A Study of Mauritian Flora
Sam Crosfield, Kew Diploma Student

Monday 23 March
Things that turn me on... Confessions of a plant freak
Nick Macer, Nurseryman, Pan-Global Plants

 
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Kew. Plants People Possibilities

KMIS (Kew Mutual Improvement Society)
c/o School of Horticulture
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Richmond
Surrey
TW9 3AB

Email: kmis@kew.org

 
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