Education
A school party visiting the Garden
The University of Dundee Botanic Garden is an excellent resource for all year round for teaching and learning plant biology and other subjects. Our educational features include:
- Glasshouses: well established tropical, temperate and desert vegetation.
- Trees and shrubs planted in 9.5 hectares according to geographical location, demonstrating methods of pollination, seed dispersal and adaptation.
- Mini-succession of native plants from mountain top and moorland to woodland and a eutrophic pond, especially good for ecological studies.
- Material closely linked to the curriculum for primary and secondary schools is available.
- Sessions are run to raise the competence of teachers in teaching plant biology.
- Special educational events are often listed among our .
- A classroom can be booked for teaching and experimental work.
- Mini-guides
on various topics, including birds in the garden and insect eating plants.
Courses
From time to time, there are botanical courses at the Garden running under the University of Dundee Continuing Education programme, for example Name that Plant. For more information, visit the Continuing Education website.
Research
Honours year and PhD students carry out research in the garden as part of their course work. The Curator (Alasdair Hood) and Education Officer (Dr Neil Paterson) can advise on the current programmes.
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