by Marketing | Nov 6, 2023 | News
November Newsletter Kew Symposium on The State of the World’s Plants and Fungi 2023 A Race Against Time Our Director, John Curtis, recently attended the three-day symposium at Kew’s Jodrell Laboratory titled, “The State of the World’s Plants and Fungi.” To...
by Marketing | Oct 24, 2023 | News
October Newsletter Strange Fruit October 2023 Below is a branch of a Champion Tree at VBG, Cryptocarya alba. It is the tallest in Britain, and is about the same stature here as those in its Chilean homeland. Its natural habitat is in a type of forest where all the...
by Marketing | Sep 18, 2023 | News
September Newsletter Clerodendron bungei is to be found in severalspots in the garden. It can be quite aggressiveand has a scent that is divisive, some say theflowers are sweet, others that the leaves arenauseous. Introduced by Robert Fortune in1844 as a greenhouse...
by Marketing | Aug 8, 2023 | News
Aliens at Ventnor They’ve arrived! The aliens are at Ventnor Botanic Garden! A headline grabber that could announce the extraterrestrial arrival of beings to rewrite our knowledge of the Universe. Or, a headline referring to the plants we refer to as aliens, those...
by Marketing | Dec 23, 2022 | News
Frost damage in the Garden A high pressure system over Greenland and Iceland combined with a second system over Russia have squeezed Arctic cold air south, creating a cold snap here in the U.K. during December this year. We push the boundaries of half-hardiness at...
