Super soil
You might not think that soil needs to be restored, but it does. Over time the nutrients (the food plants take out of soil) get used up. You can put some of these nutrients back using fertilisers.…
Plants have secrets premiere
In November we ran our first Plants have Secrets project. Young people learned about psychoactive plants and how to make films
The Dolmen Hoard
From this month our Glasshouses are closed to visitors. This is an important part of our Glasshouse Restoration Project. The glasshouses have to be taken apart to fix every fit of them. The glass…
Coco props
When our glasshouses are fully repaired, we will be able to grow Theobroma cacao (the cocoa plant) in the Tropical Corridor. Cocoa will be one of the star plants in our repaired glasshouse and…
Digging for sustainability
If you visit the Garden this month you will be able to see a big change. We have dug a great big hole in the lower lawn. Don't worry the hole won't be there for long. We have dug it as part of our…
A holiday home for plants
Restoring our glasshouses is hard for lots of reasons. One of the reasons is that when we fix a glasshouse we need to take all the plants out of it. The problem is that there is a reason that the…
Finding our voice
As part of our Glasshouse Restoration Project we will be making a new audio guide for the Garden. The audio guide will tell people about the Garden and its plants. We want the new guide to represent…
Plants have secrets
A big part of the Glasshouse Restoration project is getting lots more people to enjoy our glasshouses. We really want young people to visit the glasshouses and the Garden. This is why over the next…