On March 21, the first day of the calendar spring, the University of Warsaw Botanical Garden opens its gates and invites you to the new season under the slogan “Appetizing Botanical”. It’s an invitation to look at plants with all your senses — to pause for a moment and see the first geophytes in the Garden, smell the damp soil and the rays of spring sun. At the same time we will discover how closely nature is woven into our everyday lives. Program (included with the entrance ticket): - 10:00 — PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS with Jarosław Deluga. They will let you capture the fleeting — the first buds and the light of early spring. - 12:00 — SPRING SEARCHES with Squirrel. Together with Marianna Wojcieska, an educator from the Education Studio, we will look under stones, check whether something is already chirping in the grass, and watch for the first green and fragrant signs of spring. The walk is intended for children up to 10 years old. - 13:00 — GEOPHYTES — SPRING HITS. Anna Albin, an educator from the Education Studio, will invite you on a walk about geophytes — plants that bloom the earliest: snowdrops, hepatica, spring snowflakes and spring crocuses. We will learn why they decide on such a bold season start and how they cope with capricious early-spring weather. Meeting point at ticket office no. 1. We do not accept registrations for workshops and walks. To participate you must buy an entrance ticket and collect a pass at the Garden ticket office. At the Garden ticket offices on March 21 there will also be a FIELD GAME — “Appetite for Spring” — an educational “starter” that will lead you along paths of taste and alleys of appetite! Which garden plants could already — at least in theory — appear on our plates today? Would it be enough to pick them straight from the bed, or would you have to go deeper — for roots, bulbs, or even the right tools? During the season inauguration we invite you to a tasty reflection on edible plants. We do, however, emphasize: all specimens in the Garden are to be admired only with the eyes. We do not taste or pick — but we do learn, discover and inspire! As usual, we have prepared seedlings for the first 30 people — it will be Vanilla planifolia, an exotic symbol of the “appetizing” theme year, which will remind that nature is close and can be present in our homes. In March and April the Garden and greenhouses will be open daily, including holidays, from 10:00 to 18:00. Ticket offices will be open until 17:00. Last entry to the greenhouse at 17:20. Greenhouses will be closed on Mondays. From the new season (from March 21) ticket prices will change (+20%). Tickets at the old price can be bought only online. Tickets ordered via the Internet are valid for 30 days from the date of purchase: https://www.kupbilet.pl/ogrod_UW/sprzedaz6 Until March 15 only you can purchase SEASON PASSES to the Garden at the old price. Purchase can be made only at the greenhouse ticket office — on weekends from 11:00 to 15:00. #APETYCZNYBOTANICZNY After a year of fiber and dye plants, a year of scent, detective and art themes, comes the edition of “practical botanical” — APPETIZING BOTANICAL. In 2026 the University of Warsaw Botanical Garden will focus on edible plants and the broadly understood culture of food: from cultivation and harvesting, through culinary practices, to rituals connected with the shared table. We will look at relations between plants and the human organism, the ways in which nature nourishes the body, memory and imagination, and how botanical knowledge intertwines with everyday food practices. An important thread of the program will be the problem of food waste and responsibility for the resources we use. We will juxtapose the scientific perspective with cultural and artistic experience, asking how we can regain mindfulness toward food — its origin, value and fragility. The Garden will become a space for reflection on the table as a meeting place: of plants, people, traditions and contemporary ecological challenges. On March 25 at 12:00 we invite you to the inaugural thematic lecture titled “How to feed humanity without destroying the Earth?”, traditionally given by the Garden Director, Prof. Marcin Zych. The lecture will take place in the Conference Room. ENTRY FREE — everyone can come for this knowledge! The meeting will not be broadcast live; it will be recorded and shared on the Garden’s YouTube channel in the following days. Welcome!
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