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Looking good now
Coral-orange flowers of this Bishop's Hat hybrid line the Stream Garden
University Botanic Garden
1 Brookside
Cambridge
CB2 1JE
01223 336265
Looking Good Now
Each week, we select some of the most beautiful or intriguing plants at the Botanic Garden and post brief plant profiles here, giving you a head start on what to look for on your next visit to the Garden.
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10/05/2012
Epimedium x warleyense
Coral-orange flowers of this Bishop's Hat hybrid line the Stream Garden
18/04/2012
Jade Vine
The famous jade vine is in flower in the Glasshouse Range
28/03/2012
Specimen Prunus
Beautiful blossom on the Yoshino Cherry
17/03/2012
Spring bulbs
The fading snowdrops have been overtaken by crowds of golden wild narcissus and electric blue squills.
29/02/2012
Techophilaea cyanocrocus
The Mountains House hosts the vivid electric-blue ink splashes of the Chilean Blue Crocus (it's not actually a crocus...!)
29/11/2011
Narcissus viridiflorus
This mysterious autumn-flowering narcissus with murky green spidery flowers now graces the Mountains display in the Alpine House.
06/11/2011
Pistacia chinensis
Chinese Mastic is a rounded medium-sized tree just off the Fairway which in autumn is aflame in the low afternoon sun.
19/10/2011
Ricinus communis 'Carmencita'
The puckered, palmate shiny burgundy leaves of this vivid selection of Castor Oil plant are burlesque foils to the spiky spherical fruits in crimson.
07/10/2011
Broussonetia in fruit
Push under the canopy of the mulberry, Broussonetia kazinoki, on the edge of the Systematic Beds and you will find these unusual fruits. More....
