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Professor Filbert’s Plant Heroes

Join Professor Filbert on our summer trail and search for some amazing plant discoveries.

  • 17th July 2025 - 3rd September 2025
  • 10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Professor Filbert is searching around the Botanic Garden because they have heard that humans have made some exciting discoveries about plants.  See if you can find the plant that has tiny hooks that led to the idea for Velcro! Another plant has inspired scientists to improve medical equipment and another can be used as a dye. Follow in the Professor’s pawprints and discover what incredible information they found.

Suitable for all ages 3+.

Children must be accompanied at all times.

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Forming part of St John’s College, The Bridge of Sighs is one of Cambridge’s most famous landmarks. It shares little with its Venetian namesake, but this Gothic Revival style structure is a beauty in its own right, best admired by punt.