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One of the largest university-owned botanic gardens in the world, CUBG's diverse collection of 8,000+ plant species supports leading scientific research. Welcoming 350,000+ visitors annually, it also inspires a love of plants, learning & horticulture.
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Cambridge University Botanic Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social · Sep 9
🍁Come and explore, unwind & be inspired by the changing seasons in the Garden. We have an exciting line up of events & activities to enjoy this Autumn. Full event details on our website: bit.ly/4n3mJty
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A peaceful scene from the West Walk, as we pause to reflect and remember this #RemembranceDay2025
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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🌿 This Week 🌿
We were thrilled to welcome @plantlifeuk.bsky.social and @channel4news.bsky.social to celebrate the Fen Orchid - brought back from the brink of extinction!
See our latest Plant Picks and don’t miss #CambridgeBotanicLights: https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-botanic-lights-2025/
A small yellow orchid with green leaves. A flower with white petals and purple spots, with green foliage in the background. A close-up image of a plant in bloom, featuring a strikingly dark purple and blue flower against a backdrop of lush green leaves. A vibrant display of purple flowers growing from a fleshy, green-leafed plant in a terracotta pot, situated in a greenhouse environment.
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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✨ Are you coming to Cambridge Botanic Lights? ✨
The spectacular event returns in 3 weeks! 💫
Enjoy dazzling light displays, more food & drink stalls, extra dates & our lowest adult ticket price 🌟
🎟️ Book now: https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-botanic-lights-2025/

#CUBG #winterlights #Cambridge
Two children walking arm in arm down a footpath with fairy lights in hedges either side of them. A man smiles at the baby he is holding, with lights and foliage in the background. A man and a woman doing a star jump in a tunnel made out of white fairy lights.
November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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We were delighted to welcome @plantlifeuk.bsky.social and @channel4news.bsky.social for filming to share this fantastic news!

We're so pleased to have played a part in this conservation project 🌿

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A rare wild orchid has been brought back from the brink of extinction!🥳🌱One of Britain’s most endangered orchids, Fen Orchid, is no longer considered threatened in the UK, according to the bsbibotany.bsky.social 's new GB red list. Find out how we did it👉 loom.ly/02JCV8w
November 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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As we head into winter, our Head of Horticulture, Sally Petitt, offers some simple ways you can support wildlife at this time of year, no matter the size, shape or style of your garden. Look out for her latest column in this month's Cambridge Edition & read more here: bit.ly/43QIUey
Bright yellow flowers of Mahonia x media 'Winter Sun' attracting a bee Dipsacus fullonum (teasel) seed heads covered with frost Tall upright seed heads of Phlomis russeliana (Turkish sage)
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🌿As the evenings are drawing in, the Garden is now closing at 4pm each day until February.

🪴Our opening times are 10am to 4pm every day – see you soon!

#CUBG #Cambridge #botanicgarden
November 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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What a wonderful half-term at the Garden! 🌿

Our prickly rhubarb is tucked up for winter, families and students made beautiful clay plant prints 🎨 and we’ve had Halloween fun!👻

Join us this weekend for tree stump prints, free tours & bite-sized plant talks! 🌳

#CUBG #Cambridge
Rhubarb leaves and stems piled up in a garden A group of people hold up clay artworks in a classroom. Three children press plants into clay in a classroom. A person dressed as a pumpkin sits on a bench looking scared, while a person dressed as the Grim Reaper stands and smiles.
October 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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We’ve gone spook-iful at the Boo-tanic Garden! 🎃🌿

Our glasshouse has turned to the dark side and our plants are showing off their creepy costumes 👻

Check out our Spooky Species Showdown and rate their strength, scent, size & freaky factor!

#CUBG #Cambridge #Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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✨ Cambridge Botanic Lights returns in just 4 weeks - with a brand-new theme: Night Pollination! 🌙
🌼 Moths pollinate 30% of the world’s flowering plants.
🦇 500+ species rely on bats - including the agave for tequila!
Celebrate our amazing night pollinators!
#CUBG #WinterLights #Cambridge
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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☀️ Come and enjoy some half-term activities with us this autumn! ☀️

🌿 Free Daily Garden Tours
🌱 Bitesize Plant Talks
🎨 Autumn Art Adventure
🪶The Magpies Magic Forest trail

Find out more:
https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on-in-the-garden-this-autumn-2025/

#CUBG #halftermactivities #Cambridge
A cluster of small pale purple flowers in the foreground with a bee. A water fountain in front of autumnal trees, a lawn and glasshouses. A view of a lake between a tree trunk and orange and green foliage. A lake surrounded by orange, brown and green trees and foliage, reflected in its water.
October 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Who would you take to Cambridge Botanic Lights? 🌟 Enter our Instagram giveaway for the chance to win 4 free tickets! ✨

👉 Like the Instagram post & page to join.
More info: https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-botanic-lights-2025/win-four-tickets-to-cambridge-botanic-lights/

#CUBG #WinterLights
A group of people stand smiling and posing in front of a green background with yellow lights at Cambridge Botanic Lights.
October 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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It’s been a colourful autumn week at CUBG 🍂 Apple Day prep is underway 🍏 Sally Petitt joined BBC Radio Cambs 🎙 and we welcomed Dr John Grimshaw’s lecture 🌱 Plus, our new community-created Garden map is on display: https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/community-shares-ideas-for-cubgs-future-landscape/
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Purple and yellow crocuses at the base of a tree A flag with 'Apple Tasting' written on it on a lawn next to a marquee. A speaker gives a talk to a group of people in a lecture hall. A group of people stand and kneel around and illustrated map of Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
October 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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✨Have you got your tickets for Cambridge Botanic Lights? ✨

🌟 New theme & returning favourites
⭐ More festive food & drink
🌟 Flexible, affordable tickets
⭐ Earlier entry & longest run ever

Book now 👉 https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-botanic-lights-2025/

#CUBG #Cambridge #winterlights
A photo collage of different parts of the Garden illuminated with multi-coloured lights and people smiling.
October 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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🌱 Last night Friends of CUBG enjoyed Dr John Grimshaw’s Annual Lecture, Gardening in a Changing Climate - exploring the challenges and positive solutions
🌿Support the Garden & enjoy benefits like free entry & events: https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/join-support/friends/
#CUBG #Cambridge #climateaction
October 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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🍂 A is for Autumn – and for Asters, Acers, Anemones, Apples, and more! 🍁 The Garden is ablaze with colour – from fiery Liquidambar by the Lake to vibrant asters in the Bee Borders.🍏 Visit this Sunday 19 Oct (10am–4pm) for Apple Day – tours, tasting & seasonal splendour!
🎟️ Tickets: bit.ly/3KMsnBW
Close-up of pink/purple aster flowers with rain drops on their petals Close up of a single pink petalled Japanese anemone flower Close-up of the yellow-orange autumnal leaves of Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Worplesdon’
October 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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We’re on colour watch in the Garden 🍂

Fiery red Liquidambar by the Lake steals the show, while the Bee Borders glow with mauve blooms 🐝💜

What autumn colours have caught your eye? Share your photos with us!

📷 Howard Rice

#CUBG #autumn #Cambridge #colourwatch #botanicgarden
Autumn trees and foliage with a mix of green, red and yellow leaves surround a pond with waterlilies. Autumn trees and foliage with a mix of green, red and yellow leaves surround a pond with waterlilies. Vibrant purple and blue flowers with green foliage in front of a large glasshouse. Vibrant purple and blue flowers with green foliage and yellow leaves.
October 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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🌿Don't forget to tune in this morning to hear our Head of Horticulture, Sally Petitt, on The Garden Party, live on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire with Thordis Fridriksson. 📻 Sally will join Thordis from around 11am.
Sally Petitt, the Head of Horticulture at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, wearing a blue CUBG branded T shirt in front of herbaceous borders.
October 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🌿We're celebrating 200 years since John Stevens Henslow became Professor of Botany at Cambridge. He oversaw the relocation of the Botanic Garden to its current 40-acre site & was a mentor to Charles Darwin, inspiring his ideas on plant variation. Learn more about his legacy: tinyurl.com/4stzwhz9
camplantsci.bsky.social Department of Plant Sciences Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social · Oct 9
Celebrating 200 years since John Stevens Henslow became Professor of Botany at Cambridge.

It's almost 200 years to the day since Henslow took an oath before the Vice Chancellor as 'King's Reader in Botany' on 10 October 1825.

Find out more about his legacy: tinyurl.com/4stzwhz9

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Geological map of Anglesey from J.S. Henslow's 1822 article Geological Description of Anglesea. Credit: Cambridge Philosophical Society. Henslow's botanical drawings. Credit: University of Cambridge.
October 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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🌿 Our Head of Horticulture, Sally Petitt, will be sharing her expert advice on The Garden Party live with Thordis Fridriksson on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire this Sunday.📻Tune in from 11am on BBC Cambridgeshire, Norfolk & Suffolk.
Sally Petitt, the Head of Horticulture at Cambridge University Botanic Garden, wearing a blue CUBG branded Tshirt in front of the Glasshouse Range.
October 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Think summer is the end of garden colour? Think again. Sally Petitt, our Head of Horticulture tells us how to bring autumn colour to our own gardens in her column in October's issue of
Cambridge Edition magazine. Read it and her gardening jobs for October here: bit.ly/4mYuP5N
The Autumn Beds at CUBG featuring a branch of fiery red-leaved Euonymus alatus var. apterus in the foreground The Autumn Beds at CUBG featuring Sedum 'Herbstfreude' and Aster pyrenaeus 'Lutetia' A branch of Zelkova serrata (Japanese elm) in autumn with its yellow leaves backlit by sunlight
October 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Due to the yellow weather warning of high winds forecast for tomorrow (Sat 4 October) we have made the decision to cancel this year’s Fungi Field Day. We apologise for any inconvenience caused. [1/3]
October 3, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Don't forget to tune in to BBC Gardeners' World this evening at 8pm on BBC2 to see the Garden's Director,
@beverleycubg.bsky.social, talking to Nick Bailey on how flowers make colour & how they use it to attract pollinators.
Read more: bit.ly/4838O1P
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CUBG Director, Beverley Glover and presenter Nick Bailey while being filmed for Gardeners' World in the CUBG Glasshouse Range. Beverley is pipetting colour liquid and there are various flasks on the table in front of them and a TV camera and boom operator to one side
October 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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The crocuses in the Garden look absolutely beautiful - fabulous photography!
October 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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🌱 A reminder to all our visitors - we look forward to welcoming you! 🌱

#CUBG #botanicgarden #Cambridge
October 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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✨ Cambridge Botanic Lights ✨

❤️ A wonderful opportunity to take some time out and spend an evening with friends and family ❤️

Make memories at Cambridge University Botanic Garden 🌿

Buy your tickets at botanic.cam.ac.uk/cambridge-botanic-lights-2025

#CUBG #winterlights #Cambridge #botanicgarden
October 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM