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Genius
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The Bristol University Botanical Gardens moved in 2007 to Stoke Bishop and I went there with the U3A Gardening Group for a tour yesterday. It's original site was sold and the University made millions of pounds but only gave £800,000 for the resiting and rebuilding of the gardens. Work is still in progress. You will notice that more staging is needed in the greenhouses - not enough money to purchase any, yet - and that a lot of plants are still in pots awaiting siting. The Friends of the Botanical Gardens raised money by pushing in wheelbarrows, etc., large plants across the Clifton Suspension Bridge.
I enjoyed the Angiosperm Philogeny Collection, where beds are laid out with plants in order of their evolution, from algae in pools to the first flowering plant, a magnolia, and then on from the magnolias.
Wicker representations of pollinating insects were hidden among beds of plants grouped according to their pollination methods.
When you have a spare ten minutes or so on a wet day, you might enjoy the slideshow.
http://good-times.webshots.com/slideshow/566477064ZoXlOT
Penny
...Location: Trowbridge, Wiltshire...
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Genius
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| Now that's the kind of place I like to visit, thank you so much for taking the time and trouble to share with us Penny I didn't realise that the Punica grew as a bush outside here in the UK, I only have it as a bonsai, so that's another one I shall leave outside during the winter months. Now I'm going to have another walk around these gardens  , just in case I missed something first time around, have a good weekend Penny, if it keeps raining I shall be indoors 'crafting'
Kath
UK - Zone 8
"People will forget what you said,
People will forget what you did,
But people will never forget
How you made them feel."
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Genius
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Hello Kath. You are very welcome. Certainly a place I'd like to visit again at another time of year. Hope you're successful with your punica (pomegranate). Did you notice the ugli fruit?
I plan to have a print made of the photo of the water lilies, to hang on my wall.
The plant outside with the violet-coloured berries (that looked like wax fruit) was very interesting. I wasn't able to remember names of everything, unfortunately, so don't know what it was. I enjoyed the cacti, too, as they interest.
...Location: Trowbridge, Wiltshire...
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