Cruickshank Botanic Garden
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Cruickshank Botanic Garden
OR:
Cruickshank Botanic Garden on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

The Cruickshank Botanic Gardens in
Aberdeen Aberdeen (; sco, Aiberdeen ; gd, Obar Dheathain ; la, Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous city in the country. Aberdeen is one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas (as Aberdeen City), and ...
, Scotland, were built on land presented to the
University of Aberdeen , mottoeng = The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom , established = , type = Public research universityAncient university , endowment = £58.4 million (2021) , budget ...
in 1898 by Miss Anne Cruickshank to commemorate her brother Dr. Alexander Cruickshank. The 11 acre (45,000 m2) garden is located in a low-lying and fairly sheltered area of Aberdeen, less than from the
North Sea The North Sea lies between Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. An epeiric sea, epeiric sea on the European continental shelf, it connects to the Atlantic Ocean through the English Channel in the south and the ...
. The Cruickshank Botanic Garden is partly owned and financed by the university and partly by the Cruickshank Botanic Gardens Trust. The Friends of the Cruickshank Botanic Garden actively promote and support the garden. Each summer vacation the Friends provide a bursary to allow an undergraduate student interested in botany to gain work experience in the gardens. Although open to the public, the gardens are extensively used for both teaching and research purposes. The Natural History Centre regularly guides school parties round the Garden, and the School of Biological Sciences of the University of Aberdeen holds a reception for graduands and their guests here each July.


See also

*
Green spaces and walkways in Aberdeen The Scottish city of Aberdeen has a number of green spaces and walkways. The parks, gardens and floral displays which include 2 million roses, 11 million daffodils and 3 million crocuses have led the city to win the Royal Horticultural Societ ...


References


External links


Extract taken from the University of Aberdeen webpage
Image:Cruickshank_arboretum_st_machars.jpg, View of St Machar's Cathedral spires from the Arboretum Image:Cruickshank_sundial.jpg, Sundial in the formal gardens Image:Cruickshank pond.jpg,
Pond A pond is an area filled with water, either natural or artificial, that is smaller than a lake. Defining them to be less than in area, less than deep, and with less than 30% emergent vegetation helps in distinguishing their ecology from ...
in the gardens University of Aberdeen Botanical gardens in Scotland Gardens in Aberdeen 1898 establishments in Scotland {{UK-garden-stub