Description:
Very limited opening times for 2008
Wednesday 25th June, 6-9 pm
Sunday 2nd November, 1-4 pm
Moorbank Garden spans some three hectares of grounds. Apart from the formal plantings and collections of rhododendron, potentilla and medicinal plants, several areas are used for field experiments and trial plots. Plants grown at Moorbank Garden are the focus of research that spans a range of disciplines, such as agriculture, neuroscience and biochemistry.
Moorbank Garden has:
- glasshouses with cool and warm areas
- a propagation/mist bench for rooting cuttings
- growth rooms
- closed cases, some with undersoil heating cable for seed germination.
The glasshouse is used for collections of tropical plants, succulents, carnivorous plants and many other groups used in teaching. But they are also extensivly used to support research in ecophysiology, medicinal plants, biodegradation, salinity and hydrology.
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