Garden Features

The Botanic Garden is home to many beautiful, curious and strange plants from all around the World.  For a taste of what you might see at the Garden take a look at some of these videos and be enticed to visit in person.  Alternatively, if you have missed anything during your visit catch up here.  The films that are shown here are made by the Botanic Garden and feature not only seasonal highlights and the work that goes on throughout the year to maintain the collection of plants but also demonstrate the rich variety of plant life that makes us the most compact yet diverse collection of plants in this country.  

Botany in the Garden

This film deals with plant taxonomy, placing plants into species, genera etc., and how the diversity of the collection reflects this hierarchy.

Plant Conservation

For those interested in plant conservation this is a series of lectures given by the Director, Timothy Walker, to third year biology undergraduates at the University in which the background to the Global Strategy on Plant Conservation is discussed and looks at how plant species can be protected, how plant communities can be brought back to biological health and how, despite recent advances, there are still gaps in our knowledge about plant conservation.

For the handout that accompanied this first lecture please click here.