Kew Wakehurst

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23/06/2026

Planning on visiting this week? Think like a goose:

💦 Stay hydrated - ask staff in our restaurant and cafés to top up your water bottle, and enjoy an iced drink or ice cream

🪿 Flap or fan yourself with a hand fan and rest regularly on benches in the shade

👣 Don't waddle too far - don't go too far into the landscape during the hottest parts of the day. And a reminder to avoid walking dogs in the heat of the day, too.

Stay safe, stay cool - and be more goose.

(but please don't enter any of our ponds. Thank you.)

Ecologists, researchers and land managers came together this weekend at Wakehurst for the National Meadows Conference, a...
21/06/2026

Ecologists, researchers and land managers came together this weekend at Wakehurst for the National Meadows Conference, and we were delighted to also welcome a crew from BBC South East 🌿 📺

Watch the piece on iPlayer (available until 5.30pm), and hear about the importance of these landscapes, as we applied scientific findings to restore biodiverse ecosystems: https://ow.ly/xXkY50ZeUMj

📷 Jim Holden

High Weald National Landscape Middle Marches Community Land Trust Habitat Aid

☀️ Happy Summer Solstice! ☀️Discover the stories, superstitions and seasonal magic behind these folkloric plants. 🌿
21/06/2026

☀️ Happy Summer Solstice! ☀️

Discover the stories, superstitions and seasonal magic behind these folkloric plants. 🌿

Please note the London to Brighton Bike Ride takes place this Sunday 21 June. We are open! But routes around Wakehurst w...
20/06/2026

Please note the London to Brighton Bike Ride takes place this Sunday 21 June.

We are open! But routes around Wakehurst will be affected, with access from the north (Turner's Hill) only. Please tell stewards where you are headed if you are stopped on route, and do check before you travel.

We asked, and you delivered!Thank you so much to our wonderful community for suggesting some great names for our dormous...
20/06/2026

We asked, and you delivered!

Thank you so much to our wonderful community for suggesting some great names for our dormouse couple - you made it so hard to pick, so we put some suggestions to the poll, and the winning names were Custard and Mustard! (Assumed surname: Mouse). 🐭

We've given them a name plaque for their humble abode and Steve, our Nature Reserve Lead, will continue to monitor them over the coming months, when they're expected to become parents 🐭

Is technology nature's ally? 🌿The sixth State of the World’s Plants and Fungi report from Kew Gardens explores how techn...
19/06/2026

Is technology nature's ally? 🌿The sixth State of the World’s Plants and Fungi report from Kew Gardens explores how technology is transforming the race to save nature.

At Wakehurst, tech is advancing our Nature Unlocked research, uncovering hidden biodiversity and offering hope for the future 🌍

📱 Visitors can use the free Trees for Bees app to count pollinators on a citizen science trail
🎶Bioacoustic monitors around the landscape are tracking how species move in response to climate, using an AI classifier to identify species
🐝 We're placing 28 cameras in trees to capture the night-time activity of pollinators - using an AI algorithm to count pollinators
🌳 We're also using technology to measure carbon storage in our trees, and the wind resilience of our broadleaf woodlands

Find out more here about the report here: https://ow.ly/Mr9k50ZcaFV

17/06/2026

Good wine, good company, good surroundings - what Moore could you ask for?

Join us for a wine walk hosted by Artelium Wine with cheese tasters from Sussex’s High Weald Dairy, and hear from an art guide about each Henry Moore sculpture. Afterwards, relax in the garden with food and drink.🍷🧀

🗓️ Friday 17 July from 6pm
🍷 Early bird offer ends soon. Members discounts available.
🔗 Link in bio to Latehurst to book.

We recently hosted our annual bioblitz! Over two days, we hosted 66 individuals from seven different societies and organ...
16/06/2026

We recently hosted our annual bioblitz! Over two days, we hosted 66 individuals from seven different societies and organisations in our living laboratory, gathering vital ecological data on the hidden life of our landscape 🌿🔎

Attendees also included 46 young people, with the Sussex Youth Rangers joining Ryan from Sussex Mammal Group for mammal trapping and a bat walk survey. 🦇 And thank you to the Haywards Heath Scouts for monitoring our pollinators, with BWARS - Bees Wasps and Ants Recording Society 🐝

Thank you also Sussex Bat Group, Sussex Botanical Recording Society, SxARG and The Sussex Ornithological Society for taking part!

Recently, one of our scientists travelled to the Missouri Botanical Garden to deliver their first Seed Conservation Trai...
15/06/2026

Recently, one of our scientists travelled to the Missouri Botanical Garden to deliver their first Seed Conservation Training course. 🔬🌱

As part of our commitment to protecting the world’s wild seeds, we support seed banks globally by sharing skills and best practices. The training took place at Missouri’s brand-new seed bank, Oertli Hardy Plant Nursery, where the team have been helping to restore tallgrass prairies - since the 1980s.

Missouri is one of nearly 100 seed banks that we collaborate with globally to help safeguard plant diversity for the future. 🌎

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Selsfield Road
Haywards Heath
RH176TN

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10am - 6pm

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+441444894066

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