Students and technician working in greenhouse, Skardon Garden
Skardon Garden houses the University’s glasshouse facilities. 
Situated a few minutes walk north of the main city-centre campus, it comprises three Tomtech computerised glasshouses and various outside plots.
This is where the plants are grown for laboratory practicals and both undergraduate and postgraduate research studies. The glasshouses are home to a collection of tropical plant species that are used to aid teaching of biodiversity, evolution and adaptation in the plant kingdom. These include carnivorous plants such as pitcher plants and the Venus flytrap and epiphytes species such as bromeliads, orchids and the infamous Monstera sp. or ‘Cheese plant’ and various ‘air plants’ (Tilandsia spp.).
Skardon Garden plants
Skardon Garden plants
Skardon Garden plants
The Pocket PEA meter (Hansatech, UK). The PEA measures chlorophyll fluorescence emitted during the electron excitation phase of photosynthesis. Chlorophyll fluorescence is used as a measure of the photochemical response of plants to different stresses.
Skardon Garden plants
These impatiens are being grown for a first year laboratory practical entitled ‘Plant Form and Function’. The packets shown are a biological control for a common greenhouse insect pest called thrips.
Skardon Garden plants
Skardon garden plants
Skardon Garden plants
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