Watch: Thinking in tree time

For over 200 years, Kew Gardens has been home to thousands of spectacular trees, from young saplings to our Old Lions.

As well as bringing beauty to our landscapes, trees play an important role for people and wildlife, providing us with clean air, flood mitigation, shade, cooling, and habitats for other species.

Trees are vital not only at Kew, but in warming cities and urban spaces all over the world.

But our trees are under threat. We need to start planning, and planting, for a changing climate.

That’s why our expert horticulturists and scientists have been monitoring changes to the climate to understand how it will affect our trees, culminating in Planting for the Future: Kew’s Landscape Succession Plan.

In our latest documentary, ‘Thinking in Tree Time’, follow Kevin Martin, Head of Tree Collections at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and his research partner Henrik Sjöman, as they travel around Sweden, Romania and Georgia, searching for the trees of the future.