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Nabil Ali in the Botanic Garden

The artist who made ink from Newton's Apple Tree

16 Oct 2023

Nabil Ali is discovering the natural colours hidden within the berries, blooms and bark found in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden – including...

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Planting ideas: Botanic Garden opens access with living collections portal

02 Oct 2020

A new web portal to Cambridge University Botanic Garden's entire living collection, 14,000 plants, aims to open access and fast-track urgent global...

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New ‘Rising Path’ opens at Cambridge University Botanic Garden

20 Sep 2018

A new Rising Path, designed to offer a fresh perspective on Cambridge University Botanic Garden’s historic Systematic Beds, will open to the public...

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Illuminating the hidden kingdom of the truffle

12 Feb 2018

Truffles are one of the world’s most expensive ingredients, and also one of the most mysterious. Now, with the help of a 170-year-old ‘living...

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Cambridge University Botanic Garden (CUBG)

World's botanic gardens contain a third of all known plant species, and help protect the most threatened

25 Sep 2017

The most in-depth species survey to date finds an “astonishing array” of plant diversity in the global botanic garden network, including 41% of all...

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Terrace Gardens

Voicing the Garden

16 Dec 2013

The Botanic Garden’s year-long oral history project celebrates the launch of the project website with a special screening of archive and new films at...

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The Botanic Garden

Festival of Plants at Cambridge University Botanic Garden

16 May 2013

A garden event with a difference, the Festival of Plants brings together horticulture and plant science in a day devoted to all things plant, from...

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July concerts at the Botanic Garden

Gnawa Yinga open the Sounds Green concerts at Botanic Garden

04 Jul 2012

The sacred songs and rhythms of Morocco and Burkina Faso will be bringing some musical sunshine to the Botanic Garden at the first Sounds Green...

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The stools of pollarded willow are a focal point in the Winter Garden

Cambridge University Botanic Garden celebrates milestone in visitor numbers

10 Dec 2011

In the last decade, annual visitor numbers to the Eastern region’s only botanic garden have more than doubled, and in November passed 200,000 for the...

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Swallowtail Close-up

Cambridge University set to blitz the Botanic Garden

24 Jun 2011

Set to the stunning backdrop of Cambridge University’s Botanic Garden, the Zoology Department is once again going on a BioBlitz.

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