I went hunting for willow seeds in the home of Winnie-the-Pooh

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Winnie-the-Pooh famously scoured Hundred Acre Wooden trying for honey. In Ashdown Wooded topic in Sussex, the wood’s unswerving-existence inspiration, Alice Hudson and Ian Willey are trying the gorse and bracken for one thing less candy, however equally fundamental.

The researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew are on the lookout for willow seeds to assemble and deposit in an underground vault just a few kilometres away. The realizing is to attend them as an insurance protection in opposition to future invaders or evolving threats. “We don’t know what’s going to happen in the long drag,” says Willey.

The willow …