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Botanic Garden & Harcourt Arboretum The University of Oxford 98 Botanic Garden & Harcourt Arboretum FORD OX BO Friends' T F A O S N I D C N G E newsletter I A R R F D E E N H T . & A M Spring 2018 R BORE T U 2 Botanic Garden & Harcourt Arboretum Friends' newsletter | No. 98 Contents OBGA News OBGA News ............................... 2 From the Director....................3 including a Great Research Bake-Off, in which News from the researchers took up the challenge to interpret glasshouses .............................. 4 their research in the form of cake. Bakers used their creations as a topic of conversation Arboretum news ..................... 5 about their research, from low-carbon housing initiatives and planet atmospheres, Planning 'Plants that to traditional lace-making and personalised Changed the World' for medicine. Meanwhile in the Lower Garden, a the year ahead ......................... 6 Quantum Story Corner introduced concepts of quantum physics to young children and Rafflesia comes to Oxford ...7 adults, who explored theoretical concepts through story-telling using Philip Pullman and ......................... 8 Buddha’s hand Alice in Wonderland. Scientists in the Walled After School Programme Garden showed how stone, the very fabric of for Teenagers ........................... 8 the city, is decaying and what science can do to help protect it. Nearby, in the Conservatory, 'Splendid Seeds' in the scientists Dr Yan Wong and Dr James Rosindell Botanic Garden ....................... 9 took people on an interactive journey with their digital tool ‘OneZoom’, a tool which Making it a ‘Green’ explores the tree of life in a completely new way, with the click of a mouse. Christmas .................................. 9 The new welcome board at the Garden The 'Curiosity Carnival' was an Friends' Section the Oxford Herbaria, complete with bespoke unprecedented public engagement success reproductions of key works from the and brought new people from across the News ..........................................10 Herbarium and Sherardian Collection in city to the Garden. Innovative and engaging the form of curtains and wallpaper. In the feedback tools were employed on the day to Events ........................................11 longer term a significant advancement will measure the impact of the event, and close Garden Visits ......................... 13 be the installation of an extensive series to 1,500 visitor responses were recorded. of new boards to accompany the Garden’s Virtually all the feedback was positive and Bobarts News ........................16 taxonomic beds to interpret the reorganised the most popular words associated with the plantings in line with up-to-date, DNA-based event were ‘great’, ‘interesting’ and ‘fun’. An classification. We look forward to seeing more important legacy of the day, and its many of Pia’s exquisite work in the near future. months of planning, will be the fruit of the many new collaborative relationships that Curiosity Carnival have been forged across the University. Interpretation at OBGA By Chris Thorogood By Chris Thorogood On Friday 29th September last year, Following the great success of the Garden’s the Garden took part in the European first fully interpreted planting, 'Plants that Researchers’ Night, branded ‘Curiosity Changed the World', renowned designer Carnival’. This was the largest public Pia Östlund has been busy working on new engagement event the University of Oxford interpretation boards for the Garden. The has ever seen. The event was dedicated to 'Plants that Changed the World' theme has explaining research through interactive been extended to the glasshouse collection learning, and an opportunity for the public (see p4), and the Garden now has a long- to meet researchers, ask questions and awaited welcome board which is proving discover how research affects and changes popular among our visitors. The New Year will everyone’s daily lives. The night was a huge Quantum Story Corner in the Lower Garden see interpretation extend to the Arboretum festival of curiosity – a city-wide programme in the form of a 'Threatened Tree Trail'. This of activities across University of Oxford’s exciting new trail will comprise a series of museums, libraries, gardens and woods. interpretation boards to be installed beside There was a wide range of activities for all flagship trees in our collection which are of ages and interests – live experiments, games, conservation importance. The boards will stalls, busking, debates, music, dance and a highlight the significance of the trees by pub-style quiz. comparing them with well-known animals One of the most successful features of the of equivalent conservation concern. We programme was the ‘Botanical Wonderland’, will also see Pia’s work feature in the new here at the Garden, where things got curiouser 'Herbarium Room' (née 'Exhibition Room') this and curiouser! Eighty six researchers and summer. This room, inspired by Linnaeus’s their assistants took part at the Garden, Hammarby residency, will be transformed and thousands came to find out about A live artist's interpretation of the into a gallery for displaying material from their research. Thirty activities took place, Curiosity Carnival Botanic Garden & Harcourt Arboretum Friends' newsletter | No. 98 3 From the Director by Simon Hiscock Twenty eighteen promises to be another toilets near the exciting year for OBGA. We are especially barn as part of looking forward to the completion of work plans to further to transform the former ‘Exhibition Room’ develop this into the ‘Herbarium Room’. Phase one of area as an activity the project: damp-proofing, plastering, space for education redecorating, electrical reconfiguration, and and public engagement restoration of the floor, was completed in time activities. We are grateful for the Christmas Fair (see below) and phase to a member of the Bobarts Group who two began in January with the installation kindly funded this environmentally-friendly of new lights and a heating system. This will facility. Towards Easter we look forward to be followed by further decoration with Pia the completion of the ‘Threatened Tree Trail’ Östlund’s unique botanical wallpaper and which will take visitors on a richly interpreted curtains, and the installation of restored and tour of the Arboretum’s rarest trees. modernized display cabinets. All works are In January our much anticipated Physic Farewell to Tom expected to be completed by April, with a Gin was officially launched at the Garden The Botanic Garden recently said farewell provisional launch date set for July – most and at The Oxford Artisan Distillery (TOAD) to long-standing colleague, Tom Price. As probably July 25th, Danby Day. in South Park (see: https://www.spiritoftoad. Curator for the Garden, Tom developed Outside in the Garden the reconfiguration com/). This has been nearly three years ‘in the a diverse collection of plants, working of the taxonomic beds in the walled garden making’ as a collaboration between OBGA and alongside a team of dedicated horticulturists is set for completion this year and will be TOAD. The gin is inspired by Bobart’s 1648 list and volunteers. complemented with high quality scientific of plants grown in the Physicke Garden. Most Tom originally trained in maritime interpretation produced to explain this of the 25 botanicals in the gin are on this list science, however his growing love of plants modern DNA-based classification of flowering and the remainder are grown in the Garden drew him to botanical horticulture and saw plants developed by the Angiosperm today. The Garden also provides many of the him train at Waterperry Gardens, and later, Phylogeny Group (APG). We will also see WiFi botanicals, including angelica, wormwood, a the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, where he installed across the Garden to open up new variety of different citrus, Sichuan pepper and received his Kew Diploma. exciting possibilities for digital interpretation rue. Physic Gin, which packs an incredible For more than a decade, the plant of the collections and the Garden’s history. In botanical punch, is available from TOAD collections have thrived under Tom’s the glasshouses, the Fern House will become and a variety of outlets in Oxford and will be careful stewardship at the Garden. Tom home to our extensively expanded collection available in the Botanic Garden shop (subject leaves a legacy of influence and expertise of Nepenthes pitcher plants, whilst the to obtaining a site license) from early March. - nowhere more so than the striking Carnivorous Plants House will be reconfigured Finally, I would like to thank all of you herbaceous border, the Hitchmough Merton and refreshed with new acquisitions. Both who helped to make the Christmas Fair borders, and the taxonomic beds in the projects are vital to our plans for new research another great success. The Friends’ tombola Walled Garden. With a sensitive eye for into the biology and evolution of carnivorous was one of the most popular stalls and the colour, his talent for combining plantings plants; we are grateful to the HDH Wills beautiful decorations in the marquee looked sympathetically and beautifully is clear. In Charitable Trust and the Friends for funding superb. Visitor numbers were up – 2659 his work Tom expressed a determination these works. compared to ~1700 in 2016. Once again and drive in pursuit of exceptional Meanwhile at the Arboretum the shade Emmanuelle Berge (an independent event horticulture and the University is grateful frame (funded by the Friends) was completed organizer) coordinated and managed the for all he has given and achieved for the towards the end of 2017 and will provide a event which generated a healthy profit for Botanic Garden over the years. valuable new resource for the team to raise the Garden. A total of 32 stall-holders were Tom was a keen advocate for the and nurture sapling trees prior to planting out. based in the marquee, hot food was provided conservation work carried out by the Garden Work will start shortly to install new compost by Chilli Dogs and Soho Pizza, hot drinks by and was instrumental in working with the Jericho Coffee Company Oxfordshire Flora Group on several local and mulled wine and species conservation projects.
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