Cambridge Botanical Gardens 2

Lovely photos... must have been difficult to choose from so many !

Thanks, TT:-)) It was very difficult but I tried to limit myself, this time, to flower photos mostly taken during my first visit to the gardens on the 14th September.

Even so I added a lot of photos of succulents! The tree bark photos were "thrown in" for extra measure & to bring the number of photos up to 20. I didn't want to go over my self imposed limit. LOL!

Had you sen the Yellow Cosmos before? I don't remember what the orange ones are called but I'm sure they are not Cosmos.

I just Googled Yellow Cosmos... quite a lot of pics there ...

I'm pleased you included the succulents :o)

Think I have to add this as another place to visit Balcony, l `d certainly like to see more, your photo`s are lovely, I didn`t know you could get a yellow Cosmos.
Are those Maple trees the ones that the trunk goes all shiny when rubbed against ?
As to your query, I myself find those kind of blogs very interesting so my answer is go for it........

I've done the same & apparently the flowers CAN be orange as well according to an article on it in Wikipedia! It also seems that it has been declared "Non-Grata" in the USA! It seems it's very invasive! Who would have thought that on seeing it in the CBG! I've also got a photo of the "normal" Cosmos we grow in our gardens here (or on our allotments!)

lovely !

Great photo's Balcony, will look out for the yellow cosmos seeds for next year.

I have just read your last blog on Cambridge botanical Garden as well as this one and they are both very interesting.Some of the students here at Kew have been there and they always say it's a great garden. I really must pay it a visit. Thanks for taking the time to post these pictures.

Thank you everyone for your comments & I'm so pleased to get some feedback & your thoughts! :-))

Linclass I think we posted at the same time as I was responding to TT & now I see you've "come between us"! LOL!

As for the Maples you wouldn't want to rub up against the Paperbark one as you'd rub off all the lovely peeling bark which makes it so attractive!

I haven't posted any more photos of Maples as the Liquidamber isn't a Maple & the other one is Beech.

Thanks for the encouragement, Lincslass! :-))

I'm so glad you like the photos here, Littlelegs! :-)) Had you ever seen the yellow Cosmos before? It seems that in the USA they have banned it for being a pest! I was reading about them in an article on Wikipedia.

it looks a lovely place, we often go past cambridge on the way to visit my son ~ where are the gardens? i didnt know they were there!

If you put Cambridge Botanical Gardens into Googlemaps it will give you directions to get there from wherever you live. Otherwise it is very difficult to give you directions. I don't know Cambridge very well & besides I'm not a driver so I couldn't direct you anyway.

It's well worth the visit. Though don't expect a public garden sort of display. I'll be posting more blogs in due course, so, as they say, watch this space!

Interesting photos. Esp the succulents :o)

I see I've made a couple of people happy with the choice of pictures for this blog! :-)) Hope I can repeat this in my next blog on these gardens.

thank you balcony i shall look it up
may even visit next week as im going to see youngest playing the drums!

You're welcome, ST. :-))

If you are thinking of visiting the CBG then I imagine the best place to see now, especially with the colder, wetter weather, might be the greenhouses. I didn't get to see very much of these as I spent my two visits wandering the outside grounds. There is sooo much to see & a lot of it was fascinating for me, not just seeing the flowers but seeing the groupings, seeing the great variety of species within a family. Many people might find it boring if all they are interested in is seeing flowers.

They are not public display gardens, though a tiny amount of effort has been put in to that end, no, they are essentially a place of study & in many places the plants are grouped together to forward that end rather than as exhibition.

I've put in mostly flowers at present in my first couple of blogs but the next few will be more on the didactic side of the gardens, after all they are University Botanical gardens & their principal mission is that of education.

that's very helpful, thank you.
husband would have been very disappointed if i hadnt explained that ~ he only ever wants to see masses of flowers

Outside a greenhouse, there is nowhere you will be able to see masses of flowers outside the spring/summer months in the UK!

exactly! he does know that but somehow is still disappointed if there are no flowers ~ i say he should put plastic ones in the flower bed so there would always be colour!

LOL! :-D

last time I visited there were huge terrapins in one of the ponds, I'm wondering if they are still there? Chatting with the head gardener he said they are not introduced deliberatly but people sneak them in as unwanted pets. He told me he actually saw a woman take one out of her handbag & put it in the pond !!?!
Anyway, a sight I wont forget is the Jade plant in full flower in the greenhouse, what an incredible plant that is, stunning. Thanks for the photo's Balcony, great reminder of a very important place.

Hello Bampy & welcome to the GoY forum! Hope you will enjoy yourself here with us :-))

I have no idea if there are any terrapins there now as I only saw ducks. Even took a few pictures of them when they came close up to me - looking for food no doubt!

I don't know if the Jade plant is still there as I hardly had time to visit the greenhouses. That will have to wait for a 3rd expedition! I'd love to see it if it is! :-))

Glad you liked the photos! Keep a look out as I shall shortly be adding a new blog.

i liked the succulents in this group of photos...

i have a childhood fondness for these gardens...

I was surprised by the sheer variety of these wonderful plants! I'd never before seen so many different species of succulents!

:)