One Garden. A completely different experience after dark✨
See Cambridge Botanic Lights turn the Garden into a spectacular trail of light & colour. Make it one of your winter plans, with more off-peak dates to enjoy the experience for less.

27 Nov – 23 Dec
🎟️ https://bit.ly/4fsgv5o

🍄 Get ready for Fungi Field Day!

Explore the fascinating world of fungi with guided walks, games, crafts, face painting & hands-on activities. There’s plenty to discover for curious minds of all ages!

📅 Saturday 10 October from 10am and make a day of it.
👉 Find out more: https://bit.ly/4rNOQ2O

🍏 Join us for Apple Day 2026 🍎
Sunday 18 October 2026 10am – 4pm
🍏 Apple tasting & sales
🍎 Apple identification & growing advice
🍏 Craft activities
🍎 Free Garden highlight tours
🍏 Live entertainment
🍎 Pop-up food trucks
🍏 Local craft & produce stalls
Tickets available now: bit.ly/3TGHy4g

Welcome to our Autumn Garden, which really comes alive this time of year 🍂

Take a break, take a seat and take in the beautiful colours 💚

#MondayMood #CambridgeUniversityBotanicGarden

✨What makes Cambridge Botanic Lights the perfect winter night out? ✨

We’ve highlight 10 reasons why this enchanting trail of light, sound and beautiful installations is one not to miss – and why you should book your tickets today!

🎟️Find out more and book tickets: https://bit.ly/4fsgv5o

Are you a Cambridge University student & interested in the work of @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social?
We are seeking a student member of the Garden Syndicate, our governing body.
A fantastic opportunity to bring your perspective to the Garden & play a role in its future.
Find out more: bit.ly/4jrZHgL

✨ 10 weeks until Cambridge Botanic Lights!

From 27 November, explore the Garden in a different light as it transforms into a magical, illuminated trail. Bring your favourite people - groups of 6+ can save 10% on tickets with prices as low as £13.50✨

Tickets on sale: https://bit.ly/4fsgv5o

🌾 Swaying in the breeze and adding a gentle rustle, grasses can bring movement, texture and sound to a garden.

🌱 Discover some of the grasses growing at CUBG and ideas for adding them to your own garden.

Read our Head of Horticulture's latest column in Cambridge Edition: https://bit.ly/4y8u14K

📸 Got a favourite Garden photo or fancy capturing something new?

There’s still time to enter our free ‘Whatever the Weather’ photography competition. Show the Garden through the seasons – from sunshine and showers to autumn colour and frost.

🌿 Enter by 31 October
https://bit.ly/3PAfEFe

Some wonderful plants of all different shapes and sizes to find this week:

🌿Chinese dwarf banana or golden lotus banana (Musella lasiocarpa)
🌿Cyclamen mirabile
🌿Maclura pomifera
🌿Love lies bleeding (Amaranthus caudatus)
🌿Cutleaf hawthorn (Crataegus laciniata)

https://bit.ly/4wiDohA

The lovely pond in our Tropical Forests house has had a makeover! 💦

The plants around it have been replanted to make it less compact & the Grammatophyllum speciosum orchid has a new home next to the pond, rather than above it 🌱

Come in and see its fresh, new look!

#MondayMood #GlasshouseRange

Some fascinating plants to find this week – here’s what’s looking good:

🌻Chaste plant (Vitex agnus-castus)
🌻Prairie dock (Silphium terebinthaceum)
🌻Huernia pendula
🌻Oriental fountain grass (Cenchrus orientalis)
🌻Seven son flower of Zhejiang (Heptacodium miconioides)

https://bit.ly/4wiDohA

Here’s what’s looking good in the Garden this week – will you spot any on your next visit?
🌼Friendship sage (Salvia ‘Amistad’)
🌼x Amarcrinum memoria-corsii ‘Howardii’
🌼Panicum virgatum ‘Squaw’
🌼Paper Mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)
🌼Morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea)
https://bit.ly/4wiDohA

🌱We’re hiring: Seed Bank Coordinator
Help safeguard our internationally important living collections in this new role.
Coordinate seed collections, records, storage, distribution and exchange, while helping develop future seed conservation work.
📅 Closing date: 16 August
🔗 https://bit.ly/4fR0lCn