Category Archives: Annual Fund

Meeting today to discuss design and content of the Tropical Glasshouse

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Alastair Culham

The first official meeting of the student volunteer group happened today. Current actions are to review the current species in the tropical glasshouse, compile a list of species to be grown and to work on design plans.

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Rough plan for new glasshouse layout

Posted on December 14, 2011 by Alastair Culham

Thanks to those of you who have helped formulate the draft plan.  The overall plan is to have four main themes: Neotropics, Palaeotropics, A tropical smallholding, Challenging environments. Neotropics will include bromeliads, wet loving cacti, Giant mexican horsetail, passion flowers, … Continue reading →

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The current layout of the tropical glasshouse

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Alastair Culham

The current tropical glasshouse layout has a traditional central path with beds on either side.  While this can be practical it is not ideal for student use and a circular route would be better to allow flow of people around.  … Continue reading →

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A new Annual Fund project

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Alastair Culham

Welcome to the Tropical Biodiversity project blog.  Over the next 10 months this blog will be used to record the progress of a project to redevelop the tropical teaching glasshouse at Reading University.  The aim of the project is to … Continue reading →

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