This Spring I'm documenting the awakening of Pembroke College gardens in Cambridge, UK. Posts will touch on flowering plants, bushes and trees, and their visitors – largely bees, wasps, flies and butterflies, but also all other critters I happen to stumble upon. Aiming at one post per week.

Posts will appear here:
pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/all

First post: "The return of the queens" pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/ret… (March 13th, 2025).

Second post, today: "Magnificent magnolia" pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news/mag…

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The return of the queens | Pembroke

Pembroke gardens are once again full of flowers, signalling the arrival of a new season: Spring. While our calendars tell us that the equinox lays still 8 days away, the days have grown longer and, at this latitude, altitude, and very peculiar geogra…

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