Cambridge Garden Plants

14/12/2025

03/10/2025

Don't forget to tune in to BBC Gardeners World this evening at 8pm on BBC2 to see the Garden's Director, Beverley Glover, talking to presenter Nick Bailey on how flowers make colour – and how they use it to attract pollinators. 🌺🐝

Read more about the filming of this episode on our website: https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/bbc-gardeners-world-visits-cubg-to-explore-the-science-of-flower-colour/

29/08/2025

31/07/2025

We love the colours in this watercolour of The Backs showing the river with a punt and a boat, Clare College, the old University Library and King's College, Cambridge Chapel.

You can see the Dome Room at the old Library, which was completed in the mid-1750s as a showpiece for the manuscripts collection. It was removed in the mid-1860s when an extra storey was built over the south range of the Library.

Painting donated in 1922 by J. A. Harwood, Windledsham, Surrey; painted by an artist for his father, circa 1840. MS Add. 6340(4).

22/03/2025

History of 11 Brookside, Trumpington Road

24/11/2023

Just a couple of pics from the other end of the world to brighten the day as the weather here begins to turn cold.

RAINBOW LORIKEETS EVERYWHERE

There are lots of Rainbow Lorikeets at the Botanic Gardens but one of our volunteers sent this pic of a Rainbow Lorikeet enjoying the blooms of this beautiful flowering gum in his own back yard.

24/11/2023

YOU'LL FIND LOTS OF FRIENDLY CRITTERS AT THE GARDENS

Kevin Stokes took this great pic of a Goanna enjoying a stroll through one of our colourful gardens. An oldie but a goodie.