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Cultivate Issue 7: Attraction or Distraction?
Number 7 - August 2005
Sarah Dixon
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cultivate@bgci.org | | | | This issue we are looking at non-plant attractions in Gardens. From art exhibitions to music concerts, animals to car rallies, do they serve a useful function? Let us know your thoughts here. Kew's "Gardens of Glass"  Kew Gardens has been showing a Chihuly glass exhibition which has been extremely popular and brought in many new visitors. A spectacular sequence of organically shaped and vibrantly coloured glass sculptures is laid out throughout Kew’s 300-acre garden landscape and inside the great glasshouses.
Read more about Kew's "Gardens of Glass Colombian Imagination  Jardin Botanico del Quindio in Colombia has a butterfly house - built in the shape of a butterfly.
About the Jardin Botanico del Quindio Jordan Garden's Hill Car Racing  The new Royal Botanic Garden in Jordan is located at the site of the Al Rumman Hill Climb Car Rally.
More about Jordan's Hill Racing
About Jordan's Botanic Garden | | | | Musical Evenings  Kirstenbosch Gardens in South Africa has established a global reputation for its outdoor concerts, especially noted for high quality jazz acts and more. “We have 17,000 visitors coming in on warm and nice Sundays“, says garden guide Christien Malan. During the summer months from December to March musical sunset concerts are held on the lawns every Sunday. These "sundowner" concerts have become very popular over the last ten years and people are still talking about the gig Canadian rocker Brian Adams gave in the beginning of 2003.
More about the Kirstenbosch Gardens Elvis Lives  In Adelaide's Botanic Garden there is an Elvis Presley Memorial Cupola, which was donated to the Gardens in 1982 by the Sound of Elvis Society. Designed and handcrafted by the great-grandson of Dr Richard Schomburgk, who was the second director of the Adelaide Botanic Garden, the cupola features gumleaves, gum nuts and the Shrike Tit. Perhaps better known is the garden's excellent restaurant.
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It's not about plants but it's in a Botanic Garden - should it really be there? Tell us what you think... | | |
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Ten years of flower paintings
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Your Amazon purchase will support BGCI The Chelsea Physic Garden celebrates the first ten years of it's Florilegium Society flower paintings with an exhibition of watercolours. Pictures of the Garden's medicinal plant collection are at the show and are also collected in a book about the works. more.. | | |
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BGCI and the University of Oxford are holding a major Education Congress in September 2006. The congress will provide a forum for environmental educators from botanic gardens worldwide as well as educators and other staff from plant science institutes, education and conservation organizations, zoos, museums, national parks and nature reserves. Full details
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