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• “Is a garden a work of art? I think it is” - Sarah Eberle on Impactful Garden Design for Oxford Botanic Garden
• Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III and Queen Camilla
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• everything grows extravagantly
• 400th Anniversary of Founding of Oxford’s Botanic Garden
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• Oxford Team wins Botanical University Challenge
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• Contours that kill: Geometry influences prey capture in carnivorous pitcher plants
• The Duchess of Botany
• Seeds from Hiroshima atomic bomb ‘survivor trees’ planted at Oxford Botanic Garden
• Botanists from the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and the University of the Philippines Los Baños have reinstated a species of Rafflesia
• Botanists from Oxford Botanic Garden join international colleagues to publish first global assessment of threat to Rafflesia species
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• New study resolves long-standing taxonomic confusion in the parasitic plant Cistanche tubulosa
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• New study reveals the explosive secret of the squirting cucumber
• Botanists name a beautiful new species of ‘lipstick vine’ discovered in the Philippine rainforest
• A tour of the medicinal plant collection with Dr Sue Burge
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• Magical Autumn Family Day
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• Floras Before Forests: fossil insights into plant origins
• Trees Though Time: Exploring the evolution of trees and forests
• Plant Evolution through the Lens of Plant Microfossils
• Autumn Fair - Harcourt Arboretum
• Oxford Botanic Garden, Christmas Fair 2025
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• Coppicing Course at Harcourt Arboretum
• Winter Tree Identification Course - 5th February 2026
• Winter Tree Identification Course - 12th February 2026
• Hedge-Laying Course - 5th March 2026
• Your garden in a changing climate
• Conifer Tree Identification Course - Harcourt Arboretum
• Houseplant Care - Practical Course
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• Propagation Workshop - 16th April 2026
• Foraging Course - 26th April 2026
• Bluebell Photography Course
• Carnivorous Plant Care - Practical Workshop
• Aromatherapy Meditation - 10th May 2026
• Forest Bathing - Sunday 17th May
• Tales from the woods: an ethnobotany of trees
• Yoga in the Garden - 31st May, 2026
• Mindful Journaling
• Wildflower Meadow Plant Identification
• Conscious Dance (Wellbeing)
• Forest Bathing - 28th June 2026
• Deciduous Tree Identification - Practical Course
• Wildlife Artivism at Harcourt Arboretum
• Straw Weaving - Morning session
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• Grow your own wildflower meadow (Practical Course)
• Drawing Club (for adults)
• Native Hedgerow Seed Collection Workshop
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• The Friends' AGM - Monday 1st December 2025
• Guide to Oxford Botanic Garden - Remake
• The Walled Garden Remake
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