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The public education programme for The University
of Oxford Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum
2014-2015
Arboretum
and Harcourt
Botanic Garden
What’s On at the
Welcome to the events programme for 2014-2015. The year ahead
is packed full of talks, study sessions and courses for you to enjoy.
All the courses and guided walks that take place outdoors do so
regardless of the weather. Please wear suitable shoes and clothing.
The Botanic Liam Dolan,
Department of
Phil Poole,
Department of
Garden Science Plant Sciences, Oxford Plant Sciences, Oxford
Lectures Rooting plants in the past
Monday 20th October 2014
Nitrogen and humanity –
the limits of civilization
series: Hidden Land plants evolved from aquatic
Monday 27th October 2014
depths… ancestors at least 470 million years Nitrogen is the principal nutrient limiting
ago. Liam’s laboratory has been using life in the biosphere. Population growth
genetics to discover how these ancient has made food security an international
Lectures take place at 7.30pm
pioneers developed the rooting structures priority. However, the drive for yield alone
in the Daubeny Lecture Theatre
that were essential for survival on the has led to very high application of nitrogen,
(at the front of the Botanic Garden).
inhospitable land of the Palaeozoic leading to substantial contamination of
Tickets cost £8 per lecture or £36 Earth. This talk will demonstrate how groundwater and associated problems
for the whole series. understanding this unique event in the of regional, national and international
history of life may be useful. scope. An alternative to added nitrogenous
fertilizer is biological nitrogen fixation from
legumes. How this process might be used
effectively to help ameliorate the
nitrogen crisis will be discussed.
Javier Agusti, Nick Harberd, Elizabeth Wellington,
Department of Plant Department of Plant Life Sciences,
Sciences, Oxford Sciences, Oxford University of Warwick
The root that feeds half The hidden depths of Amazing bacterial diversity
a billion people salinity tolerance: how below ground
Monday 3rd November 2014 the root protects the shoot Monday 17th November 2014
from excess salt in the soil
The root of cassava is best known for We have been isolating microorganisms from soil,
Monday 10th November 2014
being the main source of food for water and other habitats and growing them as
roughly 500 million people in developing Soil salinity is a major factor limiting single cultures for over 100 years. Despite this, we
countries. However, it also constitutes agricultural production, and affects an know surprisingly little about microbial diversity.
an excellent model system to study estimated 20 million hectares of cultivated Less than 1% of all bacteria have been cultivated!
fundamental questions on tissue-type land world-wide. Furthermore, the global This means that there are many new species to
determination in multicellular organisms. area of salinized cultivated land is rapidly be discovered and understood. We use microbial
This talk will explain how the cassava is increasing due to the widespread use products such as metabolites, enzymes and
helping scientists to unravel the genetic of irrigation systems. This talk will reveal antibiotics in goods as diverse as washing
regulation of root development. how experiments using the genetic powder, food and medicines.
model Arabidopsis thaliana are helping A major challenge in microbial ecology
scientists to better has been to attempt cultivation of
understand how plants the other 99% but first we must
protect themselves from provide evidence that this ‘unknown,
the adverse effects of uncultured’ group exists and then
excess soil salinity. understand their role in soil.
Botanic 2015 Biodiversity Lecture
Garden Judy Webb,
Summer Oxfordshire Flora
Group
Lectures The special flowers of
Oxford Meadows
Lectures start at 6.30pm in the
Daubeny Lecture Theatre (at the Friday 22nd May 2015
front of the Botanic Garden) and ‘Through the Wytham Flats; Red
will comprise part talk and part Loosestrife and blond Meadowsweet
guided walk around the Botanic among, …we tracked the shy Thames
Garden to further illustrate the Shore.’ (Matthew Arnold, Thyrsis). This talk
talk. Please come dressed to be is a celebration of the ancient floodplain
outside as well as inside! hay meadow flora, now of national and
Tickets cost £8 per talk or international importance since 97%
£29 for the whole series of such areas has been lost since the
1930s. Dependent on intermittent winter
flooding, this flora also needs the historic
management of a hay harvest (in the
past by scythe) and aftermath grazing.
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Peter Ayres, Katherine French,
Emeritus Professor, Institute of Archaeology,
Lancaster University Oxford
War and the Oxford Biodiversity on the
Medicinal Plants Scheme, margins: Minor crops
1941-1952 from around the world
Thursday 11th June 2015 and closer to home
Thursday 18th June 2015
Karen Lee, In World War II, as in WWI, Britain almost ran
John Innes out of vital plant-derived drugs previously How can past cultivation traditions aid
Centre imported from Germany. The Scheme agriculture and biodiversity today? This talk
harnessed the botanical and ecological will explore the potential—and limitations—
Getting inside
expertise available in Oxford to assist the of cultivating minor (also known as ‘traditional’
carnivorous plants efforts of collectors of wild plants, such as and ‘underutilized’) crops in the UK. From
Thursday 4th June 2015 foxglove and deadly nightshade, and of foreign species like carob and prosopis, to
Some leaves capture more than sunlight: they commercial growers of crops of materia native species like borage and pearl millet,
trap small animals and digest them to obtain medica, such as henbane. As well as growing this lecture will situate the importance of
nutrients. Cup shaped leaves in bladderworts medicinal plants in his own garden at Islip minor crops within the related issues of food
and pitcher plants evolved independently, and at the Botanic Garden, the organiser of security, plant genetic resource conservation,
suggesting that there may be an underlying the Scheme, Dr WO James, set up a laboratory and organic agriculture, while pointing to
developmental system that makes it easy for investigating the synthesis and movement of everyday activities that anyone can do to
cup shapes to arise. alkaloids, such as atropine, within plants. promote these species.
Karen works with Enrico Coen at the John
Innes Centre and uses 3D imaging, genetics
and mathematical modelling to investigate
how leaves grow from a tiny group of cells
into a mature leaf using internal rules of
growth. This talk will describe
the work of the Coen group
to understand these rules and
how they lead to the growth
of diverse leaf shapes, from the
simplest to the most elaborate.
Walks Sylva Exhibition
related activities:
The New Sylva:
Drawing trees
and with Sarah Simblet
Courses Saturday 27th September 2014
at the This workshop explores the magnificent
collection of trees at Harcourt Arboretum
Harcourt and offers tuition in how to draw a tree
Arboretum The New Sylva:
using pencil, pen and ink. Suitable for
children and adults, beginners and more
A guided walk with experienced artists, Sarah will explain
Gabriel Hemery approaches to drawing structure,
form and proportion, how to use
Guided bat walks Saturday 13th September 2014
ink, and how to capture the
with Karl Lofthouse Saturday 18th October 2014
diverse characters of Autumnal
Thursday 28th August 2014, Join the author of The New Sylva on a trees. Bring along your own
7.30 to 9.00pm guided walk around the Sylva Trail at sketchbook and other drawing
Thursday 25th June 2015, 9.00 10.30pm Harcourt Arboretum. Learn more about materials will be provided.
Thursday 30th July 2015, 8.30 to 10.00pm what inspired him to rewrite Evelyn’s Sarah is a graphic artist,
landmark book of 1664, what trees have writer and broadcaster, who
Join expert Karl Lofthouse for an evening
meant to us over the centuries, and teaches at the Ruskin School
guided walk through our diverse collection of
the future for our forests. Gabriel is a of Drawing and Fine Art
plants and habitats. The route will pass by trees
chartered forester and is Chief Executive in Oxford.
with known bat roosts, the bluebell wood, lime
of the Sylva Foundation.
wood and through the wild flower meadow. 10.00am to 4.00pm
The meadow’s diverse collection of herb species 2.00pm to 3.30pm. Tickets cost Tickets cost £60
has given exciting glimpses of Britain’s largest £15 per walk (includes a sandwich lunch)
bat (the Noctule) in past years, feeding on
insects over the attractive ox-eye daisies. Bring
your own detectors if you have them or there
will be a limited number to borrow for the walk.
Insect repellent is recommended.
Tickets cost £15 per person
Christmas Tree planting with Ben An introduction to
wreath Jones, Arboretum Curator bumblebees with
making Thursday 29th January 2015 Hayley Herridge
with Saturday 13th June 2015
Tree planting is not a difficult job, but a very
Tamsin Fraser
important one to get right if your new tree Bumblebees are much loved insects that offer
Saturday 6th December 2014 or shrub is to have the best start in life. In this an important pollination service to our crops,
Make your own beautiful Christmas tree planting session, we will look at: wildflowers and gardens. This introductory course
wreath using natural materials from the delivered by wild bee expert Hayley Herridge
• Site selection and preparation
Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum. is an informative insight into the life cycle
You will get lots of inspiration and handy • Guide to planting: handling the plant, and ecology of our UK bumblebees. It will be
tips and help to make a moss-based planting pits and refilling the planting pit followed by a practical identification workshop
wreath to take away with you, using • Aftercare: watering, weeding, plant to enable you to become familiar with the key
unusual materials including berries, seed protection and formative pruning characteristics of our more common species.
pods, dried fruits and flowers, rose hips, This workshop will have indoor and outdoor
lavender, feathers, pine cones and more. • Come along and learn the fundamentals components. Please bring a pen, notebook,
of tree planting and get the chance to hand lens and net if you have one. If not, some
10.00am to 12.30pm or 1.30pm to 4.00pm plant a tree in the arboretum! equipment will be available to borrow on the day.
Tickets cost £45 per session
10.00am to 12.30pm or 1.30pm to 4.00pm 10.00am to 4.00pm
Tickets cost £30 per session Tickets cost £60 per session
Practical The curious world of
carnivorous plants –
Creating naturalistic
perennial plantings -
Courses at or growing carnivores the sustainable way
the Botanic as house plants Thursday 25th June 2015
Garden Tuesday 16th June 2015
A step-by-step guide to the care and
Join Professor James Hitchmough (University
of Sheffield) and Tom Price (Garden’s Curator,
cultivation of carnivorous plants with a OBGHA) to learn how to create your own
A beginner’s guide to practical demonstration on repotting, seed perennial meadow-style planting. We will
orchids – or growing sowing and taking cuttings. We will talk discuss the research and theory behind this
orchids as house plants about the most suitable plants for indoor innovative way of establishing ornamental
Thursday 26th March 2015 and outdoor growing and the conditions herbaceous displays, on any scale. Learn how
needed to meet their requirements. Along James’ schemes are conceived, designed,
This session will include how to care for a implemented and maintained.
the way there will be a chance to probe
selection of popular orchids at home and We will look at examples of James’ work,
further into the fascinating world of this
suggestions of suitable orchids to try. There will including the new borders at the Botanic
unique and dangerous group of plants.
be a repotting demonstration and examples Garden, discussing plant selection, site
of suitable composts to use. Also included will 10.30am to 12.00pm preparation, establishment and short and
be an introduction to orchids and just what it is Tickets cost £30. Coffee will be provided long term maintenance.
that makes an orchid an orchid. from 10.00am.
10.30am to 3.00pm
10.30am to 12.00pm. Tickets cost £30. Tickets cost £60 (includes a sandwich lunch)
Coffee will be provided from 10.00am.
Get creative!
Printmaking Workshop at the Botanic Garden
with Robin Wilson and Rosie Fairfax-Cholmeley
Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th October 2014
Learn the techniques of traditional linocut
printmaking with artists Robin and Rosie
from The Wytham Studio. On this two-
day course you will explore the Botanic The Writer in the Garden:
Garden and transform your drawings into A garden writing workshop
linocut prints. with gardens writer and
Robin and Rosie work with the reduction editor Jackie Bennett
colour printing method which they
will teach you to create successful colour Saturday 7th February 2015
prints. The entire process is done by hand Jackie is the award-winning former editor of
with no large or prohibitively expensive the Garden Design Journal and the English
equipment and their aim is to give you Garden magazine, and she continues to write
the confidence to continue experimenting regular features for both magazines. In this
on your own. The course will take you workshop Jackie will help you look at the lives
through sketching for printmaking, of several of our most famous poets, novelists
image composition, block preparation and playwrights and at their relationship with
and image transfer, carving technique, their gardens. There will be individual and
inks and papers, inking up and printing. group exercises in which participants will
have a chance to write short pieces of prose
10.00am to 4.00pm both days
or poetry either based on the Botanic Garden
Tickets cost £120 for the two-day course
or on ‘remembered’ gardens. The course is
(includes a sandwich lunch on both days)
aimed at anyone with an interest in writing
and gardens, but no prior professional writing
Imagining the Woods: Art experience is needed.
from the Wytham Studio
10.00am to 4.00pm at the Botanic Garden
From Thursday 18th September until 31st October there will be an exhibition
Tickets cost £60 (includes a sandwich lunch)
in the Gallery at the Botanic Garden by Robin Wilson and Rosie Fairfax-Cholmeley.
Botanical illustration
with Rosemary Wise
Rosemary Wise, who has been the
Botanical Illustrator for the University
of Oxford since 1965, will lead these
courses. Come along to benefit
from her expertise and experience
in the beautiful surroundings of the
Botanic Garden.
Rosemary welcomes both beginners and more
experienced artists to all courses.
Botanical illustration:
Early Summer flowers
Saturday 16th May 2015
Botanical illustration:
Mid Summer flowers
Saturday 20th June 2015
10.00am to 4.00pm. Tickets cost £60
(includes a sandwich lunch)
There will also be an exhibition of work by
the Botanic Garden and Harcourt Arboretum
Florilegium Society (Led by Rosemary Wise
and Barbara McLean) in the Gallery at the
Botanic Garden during May and June of 2015.No of places Session total No of places Session total
Science Lectures series: Hidden depths… Practical Courses at the Botanic Garden
Rooting plants in the past £8 A beginner’s guide to orchids £30
Nitrogen and humanity £8 Carnivorous plants £30
The root that feeds £8 Naturalistic perennial plantings £60
Salinity tolerance £8 Get creative!
Amazing bacterial diversity £8 Printmaking Workshop £120
Whole series £36 The Writer in the Garden £60
Botanic Garden Summer Lectures Botanical illustration with Rosemary Wise
Flowers of Oxford Meadows £8 Early Summer flowers £60
Getting inside carnivorous plants £8 Mid Summer flowers £60
War and the Oxford Medicinal
Plants Scheme, 1941-1952 £8 Total £
Biodiversity on the margins £8
Whole series £29
Walks and Courses at the Harcourt Arboretum
Guided bat walks (August 2014) £15
Guided bat walks (June 2015) £15
Guided bat walks (July 2015) £15
The New Sylva: A guided walk (Sept 2014) £15
The New Sylva: A guided walk (Oct 2014) £15
The New Sylva: Drawing trees £60
Christmas wreath making (am) £45
Christmas wreath making (pm) £45
Tree planting (am) £30
Tree planting (pm) £30
An introduction to bumblebees £60How to book
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