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The Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals

Climate change is now demonstrably underway; biodiversity is measurably diminishing; a multiplicity of efforts will be required to stabilise and, ultimately, reverse these changes. At this online series of talks, four world-class researchers explore how different approaches to urban planting can result in green and pleasant places in our cities and how a great diversity of ornamental plantings can increase biodiversity.

Tickets provide access to the livestream of all four talks and to a recording of the sessions, available for a week afterwards.

  • Professor James Hitchmough: Responding to Climate Change in the next 30 years

  • Fergus Garrett: Biodiversity at Great Dixter

  • Professor Cassian Schmidt: Plantings inspired by Nature – Attractive, Stress-tolerant, Sustainable. How to transfer natural plant communities to gardens and public green spaces

  • Dr Henrik Sjöman: Trees of tomorrow – which are they and how should we find them?

This is an ticketed event, with all proceeds supporting the restoration of the prairie designed by James Hitchmough in Sheffield Botanical Gardens.

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