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Montserrat Garden

The hundred-year old botanic garden in Montserrat was destroyed by a volcano in 1996. Kew 's Colin Clubbe leads a team helping botanists in Montserrat to rebuild the garden and its plant collections. It's a vital resource for the island, whose economy was shattered by the volcano.

Lunar Veg

First year Kew Horticulture School student Thea Pitcher is planting a vegetable patch according to the phases of the moon, to test an ancient theory that lunar cycles enhance germination and growth.

Summer Meadows

Kew 's Millennium Seed Bank is preserving rare seeds from around the world. In the UK , they're aiming to collect seeds from every single species, and they're up to 96%. Steve Alton's search for one of the elusive last 4%, a Ley's whitebeam tree, takes him to South Wales.

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