Booking essential

Director Andrew Nairne will discuss ARTIST ROOMS Louise Bourgeois and Julie Mehretu Drawings and Monotypes in the galleries.

Meet 5 minutes before the tour starts in the galleries.

FREE, no booking required

Highlights include

• apple tasting: over 2 dozen delicious, locally-grown heritage varieties from the region to try and buy

The Beth Chatto Gardens began in 1960 as an overgrown wasteland which was then transformed into inspirational, informal gardens set within the countryside of East Anglia.

The Gardens include the Gravel Garden, world-famous for being drought-tolerant, in the driest part of the country, in free-draining gravel soil.  There is also the Water Garden, Woodland Garden and redeveloped Reservoir Garden which has interesting new planning of perennials.  The plant shop offers a wide range of plants, the majority propagated from the gardens or surrounding stock beds.

Join Dr Julia Mackenzie, who is involved in bird research at the Garden (where our nest boxes have been monitored since 2003).

She will take you for an early morning tour, observing birds in the Garden before it opens to the public.

Ticket price includes a cooked and continental breakfast in the Garden Cafe with tea and coffee after the tour.

Our snowdrop map, available at the Garden’s ticket offices, will guide you to the Garden’s snowdrop ‘hot spot walking routes’ where you’ll see our snowdrops growing and discover more about snowdrop science, history, folklore and cultivation from information panels in these areas.

The snowdrops displays should last throughout January and February.
 

The Botanic Garden will be launching a new adult trail to celebrate this milestone. This trail will highlight the plants that have unique adaptations for extracting and storing chemical elements, in their immediate environment, used for growth, reproduction, defence and communication. Pick up your trail leaflet at the ticket office and explore the fascinating world of plant chemistry around the Garden.

15+

While searching for fruitbodies of the Burgundy truffle (Tuber aestivum), we will learn about the yet unknown variety of possible host plants, as well as the complex ecological factors responsible for the growth and ripening of one of the most iconic ectomycorrhizal fungi in one Cambridge’s most iconic location.

8+
 

Booking required

Telephone number: 
01223 331875

Booking essential.