Cambridge University Botanic Garden - Garden Features

Garden Features

  • Autumn colour garden
  • Bed of British native plants
  • Dry garden — demonstrates planting requiring reduced watering
  • Fen display
  • Genetics garden
  • Glasshouses, containing about 3,000 species, have been restored and almost entirely replanted to display global plant diversity, and comprise:
    • Continents Apart, comparing and contrasting the fire dependent, floristically rich plant communities of South Africa and SW Australia, once conjoined in the supercontinent Gondwana
    • Oceanic Islands, exploring the floral diversity peculiar to island archipelagos
    • Mountains, exploring how plants survive life in a cold climate
    • Tropical Rainforests, a hotbed of competition
    • Carnivores, displaying the diversity of traps in carnivorous plants
    • Arid Lands, displaying drought tolerant plants from continental Africa and the Americas, including many Succulent and Cactus species, and demonstrating the phenomenon of convergent evolution.
    • Life Before Flowers, full of ferns and filmy ferns.
  • Herbaceous borders
  • Lake
  • National plant collections of:
    • Alchemilla
    • Bergenia
    • European Fritillaria
    • Lonicera
    • Ribes
    • Ruscus
    • Saxifraga
    • Species Tulips
    • Hardy Geraniums

Important scientific and research collections of:

    • Lavender
  • Rock gardens — for alpine plants
    • Limestone rock garden
    • Sandstone rock garden
  • Scented garden
  • Systematic beds — 144 island beds representing 80 families of flowering plants
  • Tree collection
  • Water garden
  • Winter garden (December to April)
  • Woodland garden — containing spring bulbs

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