Prairie Fundraiser

We’re delighted to be hosting an online symposium with four world-class researchers exploring different approaches to urban planting. This all-ticket event is a fund-raiser for the restoration of the prairie at the Botanical Gardens.

Taking place on the afternoon of 4 August, ‘Climate Change, Loss Of Biodiversity - Our Responses Through Urban Planting’ will feature talks by Professor James Hitchmough from the University of Sheffield’s Landscape Architecture Department, Fergus Garrett from Great Dixter, Professor Cassian Schmidt, Professor for planting design at the Department of Landscape Architecture at Geisenheim University, Germany, and Dr Henrik Sjöman, Senior researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences and the Scientific Curator at Gothenburg Botanical Garden.

This is an all-ticket event, with discounts available for Friends and students, and some ‘early’ bird’ reduced price tickets. For information and to book a place, visit the symposium page on Eventbrite.

Dry prairie photo by Cassian Schmidt (left), Trees of tomorrow? (right) by Henrik Sjöman