Description:Hidden behind a high wall is a 3 acre university botanic garden with collections of rare conifers, rhododendrons, sorbus, pond, perennials, herb garden, wildflower meadow, including plant collections originally from Kilbryde Gardens, Corbridge. Extensive plantings under glass with tropical plants, succulents, insectivorous plants. Economically valuable plants; pomegranate, pineapple, date palm

Further details:A high wall on a busy city road conceals a truly fascinating place - Moorbank, the university botanic garden in the heart of bustling Newcastle. Amongst the 3 acres of outside planting are a woodland glade and curving lawns. In a dip there is a large kidney-shaped pond framed by the vast leaves of gunnera. There are collections of rhododendrons, rare conifers and many fascinating trees: sorbus, eucalypts, gingkos, junipers and a tulip tree. It owes much to the late Randle Cooke, who lived at Corbridge, where his garden, Kilbryde on Prospect Hill, was very famous for its important collections of trees and shrubs. In late winter there are hellebores, cyclamen, which hazels and corylopsis in flower. Later a wildflower meadow, grown from locally collected seed, blooms