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• Biomimetics: exploiting plants for design in technology
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• The flora of Iraq
• Oxford Botanic Garden celebrates 400th birthday
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• Little Amal Meets Alice
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• Tree Climbing 19th June 2022
• The origin of alcoholic drinks
• Charcoal Making - cancelled
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• Survive and Thrive: Succulents
• Family Friendly Art, 28th July 2022
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• Amigos Stage Band
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• Alice's Day 2022
• Private visit to The Plant Specialist Nursery
• Private visit to Crockmore House (SOLD OUT)
• Private visit to Daylesford House Garden (SOLD OUT)
• Private tour of St John’s College Gardens (SOLD OUT)
• 'Building the Botanic Garden based on archive documents' - 10am
• 'Building the Botanic Garden based on archive documents' - 2pm
• 400th anniversary day
• Oxford Botanic Garden celebrates 400th anniversary
• Seasons of Enchantment
• Highlights from our 400th anniversary
• Summer Flower Willow Weaving (for families)
• Insight Tour with the Curator
• Historical and Literary Tour in the Garden
• Meditation in the Garden
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• Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum attends Department of Biology launch
• Harcourt Arboretum awarded National Lottery support for new Visitor and Learning Centre
• Arboretum Development project kicks off with design meeting
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• Harcourt Arboretum welcomes link workers and social prescribers
• Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum announces programme of Half Term events
• OBGA Autumn Fair attracts more than 2700 people to Harcourt Arboretum
• Oxford Botanic Garden apprentices broaden horizons in Bonn exchange
• Oxford Botanic Garden carries out Orobanche rapum-genistae conservation at Shotover Park
• A visit to two charming small gardens in Cumnor Village (SOLD OUT)
• Helping to save the environment - Ardley Energy Recovery Facility - 10am (SOLD OUT)
• Helping to save the environment - Ardley Energy Recovery Facility - 2pm (SOLD OUT)
• A private visit to see ‘golden’ daffodils at Adwell House (SOLD OUT)
• Exploring the role of green spaces in social prescribing
• In pursuit of Rafflesia
• Event Hire Proper
• Family Forestry at Harcourt Arboretum
• A Woodland Wander at the Ashmolean
• New species of Hydnora: an extraordinary parasitic plant from Africa
• “Is a garden a work of art? I think it is” - Sarah Eberle on Impactful Garden Design for Oxford Botanic Garden
• A New Garden: West Green House
• Private visit to St Timothee garden (10:30am)
• A private visit to Bridewell Gardens
• A private guided tour of Roche Court Sculpture Park and Gardens
• Harcourt Arboretum: Gateway to Nature - Free Entry 26 March
• Coronation of His Majesty King Charles III and Queen Camilla
• Seeds of Hope for a Plant in Peril
• Alice's Day
• Our Mission
• The Oxford Physic Rose
• A private visit to Wytham Woods, the Laboratory with Trees - 10:00am
• A private visit to Wytham Woods, the Laboratory with Trees - 2:00pm
• everything grows extravagantly
• 400th Anniversary of Founding of Oxford’s Botanic Garden
• Twin Cities Day
• Capturing Nature
• Fungus Foray
• Winter Pruning Course
• Ornamental Tree Planting Course
• Cultivating knowledge: Sarawak students and UK partners share insights at Oxford Botanic Garden
• SongPath at Harcourt Arboretum 2023
• Harcourt Arboretum Autumn Fair
• Oxford Team wins Botanical University Challenge
• Sustainability Statement of Intent
• Black Pine Whisky
• Harcourt Arboretum - Oxford Open Doors
• Autumn Science Lecture 2023: Have plants tapped into the fountain of eternal youth?
• Coppicing Course
• Hedgelaying Course
• Dawn Chorus Walk and Talk
• Bluebell Photography Course
• Meadow Photography Course
• Insight Tour with the Curator
• Moving with Nature
• Snowdrops and Spring Bulbs Tour
• Bat Walk and Talk
• Bat Walk and Talk
• Mediterranean Plants Walk and Talk
• Japanese Trees Tour
• Historical and Literary Tour
• An Introduction to Native Wildflower Meadows and Plant Identification
• Twilight Tour at the Arboretum
• Insight Tour with the Curator
• Autumn Science Lecture 2023: Prescribing Nature
• Autumn Science Lecture 2023: Fruit development, morphology and evolution driven by a hormonal and genetic pas de deux
• Autumn Science Lectures 2024
• 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
• Exhibition: Fungi - Watercolours by Katharine Nicholson
• Oxford Mosaic Accessibility Statement
• Can your Conker Conquer?
• Private visit to St Timothee Garden - 10:30am
• Private visit to St Timothee Garden - 1:30pm
• Waterperry Gardens, snowdrops tour
• ‘The University Parks - what is their future?’
• A private tour of Shotover House and its daffodils
• A private tour and garden visit to Chenies Manor and Garden
• Winter Lecture 2025: Guy Shrubsole
• Winter Lecture 2025: In conversation with Alice Vincent
• Winter Lecture 2025: Simon Hiscock
• Winter Lecture 2025: Cleve West
• Winter Lecture 2025: Anne Swithinbank
• Winter Lectures 2025
• New research furthers understanding of one of Britain's rarest plants
• New study resolves long-standing taxonomic confusion in the parasitic plant Cistanche tubulosa
• Photography Courses 2024
• Winter Wonders
• Private visit to Pusey House Gardens
• Private visit to Wadham College Gardens
• A walking tour of FarmED at Honeydale Farm
• Private visit to Faringdon House Gardens
• A private visit to a restored Gertrude Jekyll garden
• Private visit to to Colebrook House Garden
• Private visit to West Woodhay House Garden
• A new visit to Waltham Place, the Biodynamic Garden
• A private tour of St Hilda's College Garden
• Stockcross House, a romantic two-acre garden near Newbury
• Bobarts' Patrons Group 20th Anniversary Celebration Dinner
• Friends' Annual Summer Party
• Valentine’s for Nature
• OBGA Ticket Terms & Conditions
• Oxford Botanic Garden Curator takes part in community trees project
• Work Experience at Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum
• New insights into the taxonomy of desert hyacinths (genus Cistanche) in Iraq
• Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum: Use of cookies on this website
• Eggs-plorer Trail
• Super Spring Family Day
• Arboretum Summer Backpack
• Arboretum Adventures for Under-5s
• Tree Fairy Trail
• Summer Willow Weaving
• 'Here Comes the Sun' Family Day
• 'Fairies and Folklore' Family Day
• Harcourt Arboretum Family Programme
• Spring Sensations at the Arboretum
• Autumn Attractions
• Plant Power!
• Become a Friend - Sign up
• Volunteer with us
• Summer Sensations
• Friends' Visit: West Woodhay House Garden
• Friends' Visit: Waltham Place, the Biodynamic Garden
• Friends' Visit: Stockcross House
• Arboretum Adventures for Under-5s
• Arboretum Adventures for Under-5s
• Arboretum Adventures for Under-5s
• Arboretum Adventures for Under-5s
• Arboretum Adventures for Under-5s
• Arboretum Adventures for Under-5s
• Arboretum Adventures for Under-5s
• Arboretum Adventures for Under-5s
• Ethnobotanical Tour at the Garden
• Arboretum Geocache Trail
• Arboretum Activity Backpack
• Water and Wildlife Discovery Day
• Family Bushcraft
• Spooktacular Family Day
• Family Green Woodwork Session
• Christmas Wreath Making
• The Twelve Trees of Christmas Trail
• Winter Tree Identification Course
• Winter Tree Identification Course
• Darwin and the Art of Botany Tour
• Bobarts Event: Winterbourne Gardens
• Bobarts Event: Chivel Farm, Heythrop
• Bobarts Event: The Grange, Chalgrove
• Your Garden in a Changing Climate
• Baby Animals Family Trail
• Conifer Tree Identification Course
• Houseplant Care
• Arboretum Activity Backpack
• Family Foraging Course
• Springtime Family Day
• Propagation Workshop
• Foraging Course
• Foraging Course
• Foraging Course
• Carnivorous Plant Care
• Forest Bathing
• Forest Bathing
• An Insect Adventure Workshop with Louis Lofthouse
• Marvellous Meadows Family Day
• Yoga in the Garden
• Yoga in the Garden
• Harcourt Honey Walk and Talk
• Friends' Visit: Hanwell Castle
• Friends' Visit: Owlpen Manor
• Friends' Visit: The Charterhouse
• Friends' Visit: Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons
• Friends' Visit: Somerville College
• Aromatherapy Meditation
• Aromatherapy Meditation
• Literary Tour at the Garden
• Using Botanical Keys for Wildflowers
• Rose Care
• Willow Weaving for Adults
• Twilight Tour at the Arboretum
• Summer Flower Willow Weaving (for families)
• Native Hedgerow Seed Collection Workshop
• Bird ID for beginners (AM)
• Bird ID for beginners (PM)
• Botanical University Challenge 2024 Final
• Halloween Potions & Witchcraft
• Renew your Membership
• Plants and Medicine
• Plants, Potions and Skin
• From mulberry to rare diseases; a scientific journey
• The historical and cultural importance of plants mentioned in the Qur'an
• 'Mental health, links to green space and the potential for prevention and therapy' with Prof John Geddes
• A tour of the medicinal plant collection with Dr Sue Burge
• New website supports efforts to save the world’s largest flowers
• Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum hosts Botanical University Challenge 2024
• What's in a name?
• Christmas Fair 2025
• Metaphysic
• Bobarts Event: Lecture with Dr Chris Thorogood
• 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
• A tour of the medicinal plant collection with Dr Sue Burge
• Free tours with a Volunteer
• Bobarts Event: Spring Bulbs at Worcester College
• Bobarts Event: Visit to Waltham Place
• Bobarts Event: Summer Drinks and Canapes
• Bobarts Event: Visit to Rectory Farmhouse
• Bobarts Event: British Library and Royal College of Physicians' Garden Visit
• May Morning
• FOBGA Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM)
• Turn End Garden Visit
• Kellogg College Gardens Visit
• Rycote Park Visit (morning)
• Rycote Park Visit (afternoon)
• Rockcliffe Garden Visit
• Old Vicarage Garden Visit
• Bourton House Garden Visit
• Opera at New College: La Scuola de Gelosi
• Spring Fair at Harcourt Arboretum 2025
• Opera at New College: La Scuola de Gelosi
• May Morning 2025
• Home Learners' Day at the Arboretum
• Home Learners' Day at the Arboretum
• Go Wild for Wildlife Family Day
• Jurassic Plants Family Day
• The Friends’ Garden Party