Nature at The Botanic Gardens

Preview Steps

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  Step 1: Turn up the volume and press play below.

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  Step 2: Start at the West Gate entrance of the Royal Botanic Gardens. The Gardens are free to enter, the glasshouses cost approximately £7.

• Step 3: There’s a bathroom, restaurant and shop here. Exit to the gardens when you’re ready and bear left immediately. There are lots of plants on your right.

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  Step 4: In Spring, notice these small white and blueish flowers, a part of the Periwinkle family. Their flower buds untwist as they open.

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  Step 5: A champion tree is identified by a blue label and named so because of its girth! On your left, Abies Forrestii is in the pine family.

• Step 6: Keep to the path as it begins to bear left. Notice the plaques near the flora and fauna have different colours?

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