The Guardian18 Jun 2026Innovation
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Head gardener Karen Wells led the recreation at Trinity College, Cambridge, opening on 18 June 2026, using a 1690 engraving and Ray’s 1660 *Catalogue of Plants Growing Around Cambridge* to select drought-tolerant and pollinator-friendly species including betony, golden rod, pasqueflower, white-flowered moth mullein, and Good King Henry. The planting sits in front of a descendant of Isaac Newton’s apple tree on a site where 2005 soil tests confirmed his laboratory residues.