The Herbarium at Kew

It was lovely to meet up with the rest of the family at Kew and to be shown around the Herbarium with the extraordinary millions of plants - their leaves, the roots, their stems and their fruits carefully dried and preserved, labelled and named and located according to which part of what country they came from. Apparently every 30 years they need to build another wing because the records are so extensive and we learned about conservation of plants in parts of the world which are still related to England and the danger of invasive species colonising in very small areas where the only kind of this plant exists in the whole of world. It was quite extraordinary.