Event
Course: Plant &Climate: How do plants survive?
Description
Our climate is changing rapidly, and this has consequences for plant life in cities and beyond. In this four-part course, we take a closer look at this subject. How can plants adapt to changing climatic conditions? What green strategies do they develop?
We explore how plants have spread across different climate zones around the world and discover some of their sometimes bizarre techniques for adapting and surviving.
Each lecture is followed by a walk through the living collection, including the recently renovated large Climate Greenhouse at the Hortus Botanicus. To conclude the course, we head out into the streets surrounding the Hortus to explore how urban plant life has changed.
Dates: 24 and 31 October, 14 and 21 November
We explore how plants have spread across different climate zones around the world and discover some of their sometimes bizarre techniques for adapting and surviving.
Each lecture is followed by a walk through the living collection, including the recently renovated large Climate Greenhouse at the Hortus Botanicus. To conclude the course, we head out into the streets surrounding the Hortus to explore how urban plant life has changed.
Dates: 24 and 31 October, 14 and 21 November
