University of Dundee Botanic Garden in winter.
Over the past 10 months many of us have spent far more time in the great outdoors than we normally would. Courier Country is blessed with a host of beautiful parks, glens and open spaces – and a perfect space to walk and wonder is right on our doorstep at Dundee University Botanic Garden in the west end of the city.
Over nine and a half acres, it has a huge range of plants, collections of conifers and broad-leaved trees and shrubs, tropical and temperate glasshouses, a water garden and herb garden.
As well as many species of indigenous British plants, there are also representative collections of important plants from all the continents of the world.
Cambridge University students not returning to city until late April
The university announced all teaching would be online until the end of term
Most students will not be in the city over the next four months. (Image: PA)
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Learning to be moved online for the entirety of Lent term
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The university has announced today that, with a few exceptions, students will not be returning at all for Lent term, going beyond current government guidance. This means that students will be learning online for the entire term.
Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope explained to students in an email that the university ‘have taken the difficult decision to move all teaching and learning for undergraduate and postgraduate students online for the entirety of the Lent term.’
‘Undergraduate and postgraduate taught students should remain where they are currently staying.’
Ten years ago we predicted how 2020 would turn out. From Boris as PM to the climate crisis, here’s what we got right and wrong Independent Staff
Whilst 2020 may feel like a decade in itself, as we look to the 20s, today’s
Independent team reflect on how accurate those predictions – Boris Johnson as prime minister! – were. And all those things – from Brexit to a certain pandemic – that we missed…
Read the original predictions here:
Climate Correspondent Daisy Dunne on Michael McCarthy’s predictions for the natural world in 2020
“An atmosphere with more heat, moisture and energy in it could lead only to one thing: a more unpredictable global climate with severe heatwaves and droughts, more intense rainfall with subsequent flooding, and more violent storms. And so it did.”
Jade Vine: An Exotic Heavenly Decoration Your Garden Has Been Looking For
It may look like a strange, oversized celestial pendant, but jade vine is Earth’s natural bounty at its finest and it could be grown in your very own garden.
The perennial tropical jade vine scientific name Strongylodon macrobotrys is native to the humid rainforests of the Philippines.
Locals refer to the plant as “tayabak,” according to Maya Flowers.
However, this mesmerizing vine is also cultivated in Australia, South Africa, the UK, and the United States.
The jade vine is also sold in select specialist nurseries so that plant lovers can sample its unique magic for themselves at home.