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Adult Learning

The Garden is the perfect place to develop your understanding of plants, discover your inner artist or learn new skills.

What's On this Spring 2024

Come and experience this vibrant season, either by taking a simple walk through nature or by enjoying our wide variety of springtime events.

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Plant picks

Sally Petitt, Head of Horticulture, picks this week's must see plants.

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1. Verbascum phoeniceum 'Violetta'

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2. Sorbus domestica

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3. Crambe maritima

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4. Clematis coactilys

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5. Paeonia suffruticosa 'Rock's Variety'

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6. Iris 'Nightfall'

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7. Halesia diptera

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8. Rosa x pteragonis 'Cantabrigiensis'

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9. Fraxinus ornus

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10. Wisteria sinensis

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What's On

To find out more about these and other events, please visit our What’s On or Courses pages.

Education

Science on Sundays - May 2024

Sunday 19 May 2024
2.30pm

Festival of Plants 2024

Saturday 8 June 2024
10am - 5pm

Booking essential, Education

The Importance of Peatlands

Saturday 15 June 2024
2 - 3pm

News

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Redefined 'Tree of Life’ revealed in new Nature paper

A global team of scientists have sequenced the DNA of more than 9500 flowering plant species to build a new and improved 'Tree of Life'.

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Plant picks

1. Verbascum phoeniceum 'Violetta'

2. Sorbus domestica

3. Crambe maritima

4. Clematis coactilys

5. Paeonia suffruticosa 'Rock's Variety'

6. Iris 'Nightfall'

7. Halesia diptera

8. Rosa x pteragonis 'Cantabrigiensis'

9. Fraxinus ornus

10. Wisteria sinensis

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