Kew’s Grade 1 listed Temperate House is the world’s largest surviving Victorian glasshouse and the reopening in May 2018 will mark its 155th anniversary.
Michelle Payne holds an MA in twentieth century literature and its intellectual contexts, awarded by Goldsmith College, University of London. She an editor and author of Marianne North: A Very Intrepid Painter (Kew Publishing, 2011) and David Nash at Kew Gardens (Kew Publishing, 2013).