A Visit to Cambridge Botanic Garden

For a small fee, the Cambridge Botanic Garden is open to visit. The garden contains over 8,000 different species of plants from all over the world, and it is owned by Cambridge University to help facilitate research and teaching. There are resources and lectures at the gardens. In addition to the research aspect, the garden is also a place for visitors to come to enjoy the plants and the unique diversity. I made my visit at the beginning of July, which you may see from the different plants in blossom.

I visited via the Trumpington Road entrance where there is the shop to visit. There were some nice beds here with a Newton Apple Tree, which was descended directly from the tree that Newton witnessed apples fall from and realised "gravity".

I walked around the Stream, Woodland, and Bog Gardens next. 

This led into the Rock Garden.

There were some more beds in front of the glass houses, and this was the most picturesque part of the gardens. 

I went inside the glass houses, and some of them had a large range of cacti. Others had the tropical plants, and some of the rooms were quite warm.

I explored the beds further and then made my way to Systematic Beds, and these mainly seemed to be not cared for without planting in many of the beds.

There was a walkway up so you could see the beds from above, and as you can see, there was not much going on here except for a couple of the beds. I was disappointed.

A grass maze, rose garden, dry beds, and fen areas existed in the gardens, but there was not too much to photograph. A fountain marks the middle of the garden.

A house with green lawn is called Cory Lodge.

There were some dots of colour around the gardens, but you had to search for it.

I was slightly disappointed because the garden did not look very maintained during my visit. It appears that things have fallen a little bit behind, so it is not looking its best.