Celebrating Botanic Gardens: Past, Present and Future
2021-10-21 14:00 - 2021-10-22 20:00 (Europe/London) | Zoom Webinar, United Kingdom
Oxford Botanic Garden celebrates turning 400 with an incredible, online, international symposium.
We are partnering with Oxford Botanic Garden to celebrate their 400th anniversary! ‘Celebrating Botanic Gardens: Past, Present and Future’, is an international, online symposium comprising 26 world renowned speakers from 22 botanic gardens, arboreta, herbaria across the globe. The conference will shine a light on the vital work botanic gardens do around the world with four fascinating sessions on horticulture, research, education and conservation. It’s free to attend and you can register for your place here: https://www.obga.ox.ac.uk/event/celebrating-botanic-gardenspast-present-and-future. Spaces are limited so don’t miss out!
Sponsored by Plants, People, Planet and the New Phytologist Foundation.

Botanical University Challenge
2022-02-16 14:00 - 17:00
Come online and watch University teams competing to answer questions about the fascinating worlds of botany and plant science in this popular contest invented by Dr John Warren and Dr Jonathan Mitchley which has been running since 2016.
The contest is sponsored by the New Phytologist Foundation and takes place on February 16th and 23rd 2022 from 2-5pm and both events are free so register on Eventbrite at the link below to come online and watch the live stream.
February 16th 2-5 pm teams from ca. twenty different institutions compete in an elimination pub-quiz style event chaired by Honor Prentice (Lund University, Sweden) & Chris Thorogood (Oxford Botanical Garden and Arboretum).
February 23rd 2-5 pm – the dramatic quarter-final, semi-final and final rounds – see separate post.
