Urban Growing
University of Bristol Botanic Garden Lecture: The World in a Garden
University of Bristol Botanic Garden
Address:
Frank Theatre, Wills Physics Laboratory, Tyndall Avenue, BS8 1TL
University of Bristol Botanic Garden presents a lecture by Mike Nelhams, Abbey Garden Curator, Tresco.
Mike Nelhams trained for three years at RHS, Wisley and first went to Tresco Abbey Garden as a student and returned in 1984 as Head Gardener and then in 1994 was made Garden Curator. A Fellow of the Institute of Horticulture and an Associate of Honour of the RHS he has a particular interest in plants from the Mediterranean and associated coastal regions of the world.
His talk will look at why Tresco Abbey Garden is able to cultivate plants from every Mediterranean Climate zone in the world on such a small windswept island while sitting out in the Atlantic Ocean, alongside some of the events that have shaped the garden over its long history.
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