In 1772 King George III inherited the Kew estate and combined it with the royal estate in Richmond. It was Princess Augusta, his mother, who founded a nine-acre botanic garden within its pleasure grounds. Home to the Georgian royals, Kew Palace and its kitchen gardens provided the family with breakfast, lunch and dinner for almost 80 years until the death of Queen Charlotte (George III’s consort) in 1818. The gardens that once hummed with life were left untouched for nearly 200 years.
This year, the plot was revisited by horticulturists at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew to create a kitchen garden that preserves the sustainable, waste-not-want-not attitudes of the past and aims to educate visitors on the greener changes they can make when planning and
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