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Sheffield Botanical Gardens

Autumn: Cornus ‘Norman Hadden’

10 September 202014 November 2019

My friend Kate, and I, took a stroll/roll* around Sheffield Botanical Gardens the other day. As always, there was something interesting to find in the gardens. This time, it was this ‘shrub’, Cornus ‘Norman Hadden’. As you can probably tell, …

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Categories Autumn, Forest Garden, Sheffield Botanical Gardens, Shrubs, Stroll/roll, Trees

Photo essay: a little bit of early summer at Sheffield Botanical Gardens

7 June 2018

In the now 5 years I’ve lived in Sheffield, somehow I’ve managed to not visit the Sheffield Botanical Gardens in early summer before. Quite remiss of me, and clearly, quite a lot I’ve been missing. Always, my favourite part of …

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Categories Photo Essay, Sheffield, Sheffield Botanical Gardens

Photo essay: Sheffield Botanical Gardens – late October autumn visit

30 October 2015

After visiting at the beginning of October, we returned to the Sheffield Botanical Gardens at the end of October to have a wander and see how some of the autumn colours were coming along. It was a very cloudy day, …

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Categories Garden visit, Sheffield, Sheffield Botanical Gardens, Yorkshire

Photo essay: Sheffield Botanical Gardens in Autumn 2015

2 October 2015

The clear blue skies and warm autumn sun called to us and it said: visit the Sheffield Botanical Gardens, have lunch and walk around and enjoy the sun and changing seasons. Well, when you put it like that…   The …

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Categories Photo Essay, Photography, Sheffield, Sheffield Botanical Gardens, Yorkshire

Sheffield Botanical Gardens: national plant collection of Sarcococca

16 May 202124 February 2015

S. confusa flowers and berries Friends of the Botanical Gardens Sheffield gave a talk on Sarcococca a couple of weeks ago. Here are a few notes from my slightly delayed write up. Sheffield holds the national collection of Sarcococca (Plant …

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Categories Sheffield Botanical Gardens

Sheffield Botanical Gardens: Autumn-Winter structure, form and colour

14 August 20202 December 2014

Since moving to Sheffield, Kevin and I have often visited Sheffield Botanical Gardens. It’s free to visit, but I’ve joined the Friends of the Botanical Gardens, Sheffield in order to support it. Plus, they have some great talks on, that a free to …

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Categories Autumn, Photo Essay, Photography, Sheffield Botanical Gardens, winter

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