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• The Japan Project
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• Adaptations to altitude
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• The evolution of carnivorous pitcher plants
• The evolution of new species in parasitic plants
• The evolution of ant-plant partnerships
• The evolution of diversity in tropical rattan palms
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• Friends' Summer Party 2021
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• Sold Out | Friends' private visit to St Timothee Garden
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• His Royal Highness, The Prince of Wales, visits Oxford Botanic Garden
• Alice Oswald - The Same Blackbird
• A brief history
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• Coffee Morning, 5th November 2021
• The Oxford Ragwort
• The evolution of parasitic plants
• The taxonomy of desert hyacinths (Cistanche)
• Biomimetics: exploiting plants for design in technology
• Public engagement with research
• The flora of Iraq
• Oxford Botanic Garden celebrates 400th birthday
• Google Arts & Culture
• The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
• everything grows extravagantly
• A message from our Director
• Coffee Morning, 3rd December 2021
• Tree Climbing 22nd May 2022
• Meditation in the Garden
• Free WiFi Arboretum
• UnbeLEAFable Botany
• Little Amal Meets Alice
• Celebrating Botanic Gardens: Past, Present and Future
• Private visit to Cotswold Farm, Arts & Crafts House & Garden (SOLD OUT)
• Private visit to Colesbourne Park
• Private visit to Wadham College Gardens (SOLD OUT)
• Fritillaries at Magdalen College (10am) (SOLD OUT)
• A welcome return visit to Evenley Wood Garden (SOLD OUT)
• Fritillaries at Magdalen College (2pm) (SOLD OUT)
• Watercolour Class One
• Meditation in the Garden
• Yoga in the Garden, 3rd July, 2022
• Yoga in the Garden, 10th July, 2022
• Tree Climbing 19th June 2022
• The origin of alcoholic drinks
• Bushcraft - cancelled
• Charcoal Making - cancelled
• Press
• Survive and Thrive: Succulents
• Family Friendly Art, 28th July 2022
• Watercolour Masterclass with The Illustrating Botanist
• The Visitor and Learning Centre at Harcourt Arboretum
• An evening with Raymond Blanc
• Amigos Stage Band
• Private visit to Tythrop Park (SOLD OUT)
• Coach visit to Derry Watkins Special Plants and Iford Manor
• Private visit to Rodmarton Manor and Garden (SOLD OUT)
• Private visit to Blewbury Manor (SOLD OUT)
• Double private visit Westwell Manor and the Old Vicarage, Bledington (SOLD OUT)
• Visit to Kiftsgate Court Gardens (SOLD OUT)
• Private visit to Broughton Grange (SOLD OUT)
• Private visit to Merton College Gardens and The Old Library (SOLD OUT)
• A welcome return to Coton Manor (SOLD OUT)
• Coach trip to a 'safari' visit at Knepp Wildland (SOLD OUT)
• May Morning
• The Friends’ Annual General Meeting
• The Friends' Opera
• Friends’ Glade at the Spring Fair
• Palate for the Planet
• 400th Anniversary Celebrations
• All about Trees
• Social Prescribing at Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum
• The Oxford Physic Rose 2022
• Imaginary Landscapes
• Capturing Nature - A day of workshops, talks and family activities
• The OAE at Oxford Town Hall
• Plant-based Street Food Fair
• 400th Anniversary Finale Week
• Virtual Visit
• Capturing Nature - Exhibition
• Alice's Day 2022
• Physic - An evening of poetry, music, and movement curated by Professor, Alice Oswald
• Live music at Oxford Botanic Garden
• Private visit to The Plant Specialist Nursery
• Private visit to Crockmore House (SOLD OUT)
• Private visit to Daylesford House Garden (SOLD OUT)
• Private tour of St John’s College Gardens (SOLD OUT)
• 'Building the Botanic Garden based on archive documents' - 10am
• 'Building the Botanic Garden based on archive documents' - 2pm
• 400th Anniversary Bell Ringing
• 400th anniversary day
• Oxford Botanic Garden celebrates 400th anniversary
• Seasons of Enchantment
• everything grows extravagantly
• 400th Anniversary Fortnight
• Highlights from our 400th anniversary
• Summer Flower Willow Weaving (for families)
• Insight Tour with the Curator
• Historical and Literary Tour in the Garden
• Meditation in the Garden
• Yoga in the Garden
• Yoga in the Garden
• Wikipedia
• Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum attends Department of Biology launch
• Harcourt Arboretum awarded National Lottery support for new Visitor and Learning Centre
• Arboretum Development project kicks off with design meeting
• News
• OBGA Engagement & Wellbeing Officer attends Oxford 50+ networking event
• Harcourt Arboretum welcomes link workers and social prescribers
• Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum announces programme of Half Term events
• OBGA Autumn Fair attracts more than 2700 people to Harcourt Arboretum
• Oxford Botanic Garden apprentices broaden horizons in Bonn exchange
• Oxford Botanic Garden carries out Orobanche rapum-genistae conservation at Shotover Park
• A visit to two charming small gardens in Cumnor Village (SOLD OUT)
• Private visit to Cerney House Gardens (SOLD OUT)
• Helping to save the environment - Ardley Energy Recovery Facility - 10am (SOLD OUT)
• Helping to save the environment - Ardley Energy Recovery Facility - 2pm (SOLD OUT)
• A private visit to see ‘golden’ daffodils at Adwell House (SOLD OUT)
• Coach trip to Berkeley Castle and Jekka’s Herb Garden (SOLD OUT)
• Exploring the role of green spaces in social prescribing
• In pursuit of Rafflesia
• Event Hire Proper
• Family Forestry at Harcourt Arboretum
• A Woodland Wander at the Ashmolean
• New species of Hydnora: an extraordinary parasitic plant from Africa
• “Is a garden a work of art? I think it is” - Sarah Eberle on Impactful Garden Design for Oxford Botanic Garden
• A New Garden: West Green House
• Friends' New Chamber Opera
• A coach visit to Melbourne Hall Gardens and Bluebell Arboretum Nursery
• Private visit to Englefield House and the Gardens (SOLD OUT)
• A coach visit to Birmingham Botanical Gardens and Winterbourne House and Garden
• Mill Barn, a private visit to this rarely open garden (SOLD OUT)
• Private visit to St Timothee garden (10:30am)
• Private visit to St Timothee garden (2:30pm)
• A private visit to Bridewell Gardens
• Private visit to Lords Wood (SOLD OUT)
• A private guided tour of Roche Court Sculpture Park and Gardens
• Private visit to Worcester College (SOLD OUT)
• Harcourt Arboretum: Gateway to Nature - Free Entry 26 March
• Christmas Fair: Call for Stallholders
• Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III and Queen Camilla
• Seeds of Hope for a Plant in Peril
• Alice's Day - Tea with Mad Hatter & Hare
• Our Mission
• Friends' Annual Party (SOLD OUT)
• The Oxford Physic Rose
• Private visit to The Cotswold Wild Life Park and Gardens (SOLD OUT)
• A private visit to Wytham Woods, the Laboratory with Trees - 10:00am
• A private visit to Wytham Woods, the Laboratory with Trees - 2:00pm
• A private visit to a north Cotswold garden to see autumn planting (SOLD OUT)
• Private Tour of St Catherine’s College Gardens (SOLD OUT)
• Private visit to Lime Close, a dendrologist’s paradise (SOLD OUT)
• everything grows extravagantly
• 400th Anniversary of Founding of Oxford’s Botanic Garden
• Twin Cities Day
• Capturing Nature
• Seed Saving Workshop
• Moving with Nature
• Fungi Foray
• Winter Pruning Course
• Ornamental Tree Planting Course
• Cultivating knowledge: Sarawak students and UK partners share insights at Oxford Botanic Garden
• SongPath at Harcourt Arboretum 2023
• Harcourt Arboretum Autumn Fair
• Oxford Team wins Botanical University Challenge
• Sustainability Statement of Intent
• Christmas Fair
• Black Pine Whisky
• Harcourt Arboretum - Oxford Open Doors
• Autumn Science Lecture 2023: Have plants tapped into the fountain of eternal youth?
• Coppicing Course
• Winter Tree Identification Course
• Hedgelaying Course
• Conifer Tree Identification Course
• Foraging Course
• Foraging Course
• Foraging Course
• Forest Bathing
• Forest Bathing
• Dawn Chorus Walk and Talk
• Bluebell Photography Course
• Meadow Photography Course
• Natural Photography Workshop
• Insight Tour with the Curator
• Moving with Nature
• Snowdrops and Spring Bulbs Tour
• Bat Walk and Talk
• Bat Walk and Talk
• Aromatherapy Meditation
• Aromatherapy Meditation
• Yoga in the Garden
• Yoga in the Garden
• Mediterranean Plants Walk and Talk
• Japanese Trees Tour
• Historical and Literary Tour
• An Introduction to Native Wildflower Meadows and Plant Identification
• Twilight Tour at the Arboretum
• Insight Tour with the Curator
• Propagation Workshop
• Autumn Science Lecture 2023: Prescribing Nature
• Autumn Science Lecture 2023: Fruit development, morphology and evolution driven by a hormonal and genetic pas de deux
• Autumn Science Lecture 2023: Tropical forests and planet Earth
• Autumn Science Lectures 2023
• Autumn Science Lecture 2023: Professor Ilina Singh
• Contours that kill: Geometry influences prey capture in carnivorous pitcher plants
• The Duchess of Botany
• Seeds from Hiroshima atomic bomb ‘survivor trees’ planted at Oxford Botanic Garden
• Botanists from the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and the University of the Philippines Los Baños have reinstated a species of Rafflesia
• Botanists from Oxford Botanic Garden join international colleagues to publish first global assessment of threat to Rafflesia species