Head Gardener, Steven Coghill, will take you on a tour of the stunning wild flower meadow explaining how it came about and is maintained. Weather permitting, you will witness the meadow being cut with the assistance of with shire horses. In addition, further areas of the College’s Gardens will be explored including the Fellow Gardens.
The King’s College Wildflower Meadow
Modelled on the East Anglian countryside at the turn of the twentieth century, a large swathe of Cambridge’s most iconic lawn had been transformed into an ecosystem rich in biodiversity that has seen poppies, cornflowers, scentless mayflowers, corn cockles and more stretching from the Chapel to the banks of the Cam. With perennial plants such as small scabious, sorrel, and kidney vetch coming to the fore as the annuals start to fade away. The biodiversity of the meadow is being monitored by academic staff across the University to understand its effect on species richness, as compared with the lawn which had occupied the space since the latter half of the eighteenth century.