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University of Oxford Botanic Garden Newsletter Number The University of Oxford 104 Botanic Garden & Arboretum Friends' newsletter Spring/ Summer 2020 2 Botanic Garden & Arboretum Friends' newsletter | No. 104 From the Editor By Chris Thorogood © Ian Wallman Visitors engaging with our carnivorous plants We rely on plants in our everyday lives, from visitors’, meanwhile 72% of those visiting the oxygen in the air we breathe, to the food the Garden had never been before. We have a Contents we eat and even the clothes we wear. And yet slight female gender bias (56%) at the Garden society is far more attuned to seeing animals where we engage with more 16-24 year olds From the Editor .......................... 2 than we are plants. This is a phenomenon that (21% of our total demographic) compared From the Director...................... 3 has been described as ‘plant blindness’. We are with the Arboretum where just 6% of people very conscious of plant blindness at Oxford fall into this category, however 26% of people News from the Botanic Garden and Arboretum, and the many are 35-44. These data can now inform our Glasshouses .................................4 ways in which we can tackle it in our mission marketing strategies across the two sites. Arboretum Developments ....6 to share the scientific wonder of plants with the Furthermore, research carried out across world. From the education and engagement the GLAM (Gardens, Libraries and Museums) News from the Garden ............ 7 events we deliver, to the interpretation of division with focus groups has identified gaps News from the Education our internationally important collections, in our audience profile currently – i.e. who building awareness about the importance of we are not engaging with today. This work Team ...............................................8 plants is at the heart of what we do. In this revealed a perception that the Botanic Garden Plants domesticated edition you will read about the work we are is for those who have a special interest in the by ants ...........................................9 doing to improve and promote our plant collection, as well as being a place to relax. The collections to connect them to people. Our Arboretum was considered less specialist than Friends' Section Public Education Programme now includes the Garden, however there was a lower level News ..........................................10 activities such as tree climbing and foraging of awareness about the site generally. As we Events ........................................10 at the Arboretum, which are effective in take on ambitious plans to develop both our engaging younger audiences with the natural sites, and with our 400th anniversary on the Friends’ Garden Visits heritage of the site. Meanwhile we are horizon, these insights will enable us to share Summer 2020 ..........................12 extending and augmenting our collections the message about the importance of plants and interpretation to explain the significant with new audiences. We are taking bold steps The Danby Patrons’ historic and literary heritage of the Garden. in our journey towards ‘curing’ plant blindness. Group ..........................................15 In order to engage our public with these The Bobarts Patrons’ collections and interpretation, we need to We would like to thank all the Trusts Group ......................................... 16 understand who visits our sites and online and individual supporters who make spaces, and who is not visiting. With the the programme possible. If you would help of interactive ‘kiosks’ in our Welcome like to set up a regular payment Centres, we gathered data from people towards the Apprenticeship Scheme visiting our sites last summer. This snapshot please contact Dominique on Front cover image: shiny-leaf yellowhorn, of our visitor profile tells us that 42% of [email protected] Xanthoceras sorbifolium visitors to the Arboretum were ‘first time Botanic Garden & Arboretum Friends' newsletter | No. 104 3 From the Director By Simon Hiscock Last year OBGA received over 200,000 visitors So what lies ahead in 2020? The decade is linked with the Friends’ campaign to for the first time in its history, with the Garden of our 400th anniversary began well with the raise £750,000 for improvements to the setting a new visitor record (~165,000) for the welcome arrival of Mark Brent, the Garden’s path network – we estimate the overall third year running. I am sure this is a reflection new Curator and Head of Horticulture. Mark project will cost in the region of £5 million. of our exciting scientific, horticultural and brings with him over 30 years’ experience in At the Garden we will continue working arboricultural offerings presented with collections-based and heritage horticulture, with University Estates and external engaging and inspiring interpretation. Indeed, having previously worked at Kew, Wakehurst consultants to finalise a feasibility study for 2019 saw the installation of 30 interpretation Place, Waddesdon Manor, and most recently the long anticipated and much-needed new boards for the newly configured order beds at Walmer Castle. glasshouses. On top of all this, preparation of the taxonomic collection. This was the Already Mark and the team are making for the Garden’s 400th anniversary, in 2021, most significant interpretation project in the great progress with the reconfiguration of is proceeding apace – more will be revealed Garden’s history and provides a major new the Rock Garden to create a Mediterranean in the next newsletter. learning resource for students and visitors, landscape reflecting John Sibthorp’s botanical providing accessible insight into the modern expeditions to Greece. Work on the rockery DNA-based classification of flowering plants. began by returning part of Rose Cottage May 2019 saw the timely installation of garden to the Botanic Garden. This meant a sculpture celebrating Philip Pullman’s ‘His the removal of a shed and a number of rain Dark Materials’ trilogy behind ‘Lyra’s bench’. water butts; the shed was donated to Restore’s This dramatic piece has proved extremely allotment and the water butts shared between popular, especially with Pullman fans who Restore and the Osney allotments water now have a unique photo opportunity. conservation project. The Rock Garden is 2019 ended with the most successful just one of a number of exciting projects that Christmas Fair yet, welcoming over 5,000 you will see develop during 2020, including visitors to the Garden – nearly 50% of whom the Literary Garden and Heritage Borders at were ‘first time visitors’. With a larger marquee the Garden, and the continued replanting of it was possible to accommodate 43 stalls, the Serpentine Ride and creation of a Mount 10 more than previous years, increasing the Tateyama landscape at the Arboretum. variety of special Christmas gifts available. 2020 will also be a year of progress with More food and drink offerings, and more capital projects. In March we will submit a activities in the Garden were also available, Phase 1 funding application to the National along with free tours by volunteer guides, Lottery Heritage Fund for a Visitor and The reconfiguration of the Rock Garden which proved very popular. Education Centre at the Arboretum. This this spring The Horns of Plenty playing at the Christmas Fair 4 Botanic Garden & Arboretum Friends' newsletter | No. 104 News from the Glasshouses By Kate Pritchard Preparations for the 400th anniversary In 18 months’ time on 25th July 2021, Trials of day-flowering tropical the Botanic Garden will celebrate its waterlilies have entered their fourth 400th anniversary and 400 years of Plant year. This summer we shall be growing Science at Oxford University. It started Nymphaea ‘Tina’, N. lotus and N. ‘Ruby’ life as a physic garden, open to visitors alongside other more established by appointment and providing plant waterlilies. We might also be growing material for those studying Medicine at the beautiful and barbed Euryale ferox the University and, later, Botany too. this year having found a seedling in the Happily the Garden and its audiences tropical pond in January. have flourished during its 399 year history. After a wait of more than 20 years, On any given day, the Garden welcomes the sub-tropical corridor has had its visitors from around the world, of all ages soil replaced. Fundamental to creating and interests. From the curious to the glasshouse displays is providing committed plant enthusiast, those seeking optimum growing environments with a green oasis in the city and those in search excellent soil conditions. of superlatives in plant form! A two-layer substrate, specifically In preparation for the 2021 developed for glasshouse display celebrations, we have been particularly conditions, has been used. We have busy in the glasshouses this spring. With trialled this elsewhere in the display help from our volunteers, colleagues in glasshouses and are delighted with the the collections team and the University growth response of the plants. Please do Parks staff, we have undertaken several visit the glasshouses to see the results horticultural projects. for yourselves. Nymphaea cultivars trialled in the waterlily house pond The flower ofEuryale ferox Botanic Garden & Arboretum Friends' newsletter | No. 104 5 Nymphaea cultivars trialled in the waterlily house pond The sub-tropical corridor 6 Botanic Garden & Arboretum Friends' newsletter | No. 104 Arboretum Developments Serpentine Ride restoration Restoration of the Serpentine Ride By Ben Jones During the winter, work continued on the opportunity to enhance the collections it’s the team of people involved which Serpentine Ride, with a focus on removing by growing horticulturally significant adds to the restoration work. Working the next sections of Rhododendron collections of rhododendrons, camellias alongside the tree team are our ponticum, ahead of replanting this spring. and magnolias. These three genera form volunteers, without whom such progress The restoration of the Serpentine Ride part of what I refer to as ‘signature plants’ would not be possible, and for whose represents one of the many exciting for the Arboretum, on the basis that they assistance we are very grateful.
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