Cambridge University Botanical Garden

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The Botanical Garden of the University of Cambridge is one of the most important botanical gardens in the UK . It lies between Hills Road and Trumpington Road, covers an area of ​​approximately 16 hectares and contains approximately 8,000 species. It is visited by around 200,000 people annually.

history

As early as 1588, the botanist John Gerard proposed to create a botanical garden at Cambridge University. In 1762 a herb garden was laid out in the city center at what is now the "New Museum Site". Its design was based on the Chelsea Physic Garden in London, the medicinal herbs growing here were used to instruct the students of medicine at Cambridge University .

When John Stevens Henslow , professor of botany from 1825 to 1861, took over the long orphaned chair of botany, he immediately campaigned for the establishment of a modern botanical garden. In 1831 the university acquired the current area from Trinity College , but due to legal disputes, the planting could not begin until 1846, and the area was reduced for cost reasons. Henslow had numerous trees planted in family groups. The giant sequoia and metasequoia were the first specimens planted in Britain. The eastern section was not set up until 1951 after Reginald Cory (1871–1934) had made a donation for it in 1934

In 1925, with the help of Cory, the garden acquired part of the tulip collection from the estate of William Dykes (1877-1925), the late secretary of the Royal Horticultural Society . In 2008 a new entrance was opened in Brookside, which also houses the administration building and a sales room. In 2011 the Sainsbury Laboratory was opened, the basement of which serves as a visitor café. In the course of a Europe-wide hot period , a new national temperature record was set on July 25, 2019 with a measured 38.7 ° C.

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Head gardener

  • Andrew Murray, 1846
  • FG Preston
  • John Gilmour

Components

Geranium in the chronological bed

The garden includes a rock garden , a swamp garden, a rose garden , forest garden and a garden of smells u. a. Other regions of the world are presented by a Mediterranean garden and the Terrace Garden, which shows New Zealand plants. Other parts of the garden are devoted to arable weeds and genetics . A lawn maze has the shape of a double spiral and is planted with the New Zealand grass Anemanthele lessoniana .

In 1950 a winter garden was laid out. A new winter garden was designed by Peter Oriss and Norman Villis in the late 1970s. It is surrounded by evergreen hedges. Tim Upson is currently responsible for this garden. There is also an autumn garden and a drought garden, which shows which plants can thrive in the relatively dry south-east of England without artificial irrigation. The chronological bed shows different plants in the order of their introduction to Great Britain, but ends as early as Roman times . The Fenlandgarten presents the natural vegetation of the Fens of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire north of Cambridge.

Fenland garden

See also

literature

  • Juliet Day, Tim Upson (Ed.) 2012, The Guide. Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Expanded new edition by: John Parker, Guide to the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 2002. Cambridge, Cambridge University Botanic Garden.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Juliet Day, Tim Upson (Ed.) 2012, The Guide. Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Extended new edition of: John Parker, Guide to the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 2002. Cambridge, Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 3
  2. ↑ Juliet Day, REGINALD CORY, BENEFACTOR OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BOTANIC GARDEN. Curtis's Botanical Magazine 23/1, 2006. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Blackwell, 119
  3. ↑ Juliet Day, Tim Upson (Ed.) 2012, The Guide. Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Expanded new edition by: John Parker, Guide to the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 2002. Cambridge, Cambridge University Botanic Garden, 19.
  4. ↑ New official highest temperature in UK confirmed. Met Office , July 29, 2019, accessed July 30, 2019. (English)
  5. ↑ Clive Nichols, A welcome site. The English Garden, Dec 2012, 49–53

Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 36 ″  N , 0 ° 7 ′ 40 ″  E