This week we enjoyed events as part of UCC Academy Wellness Week. 🙏Thanks to Dr Eoin Lettice posting now on Bluesky Emma Hutchinson and Gabrielle Chisholm from UCC Arboretum 🌳for your wonderful tour of the UCC Arboretum yesterday. What a superb autumn day to celebrate UCC trees 🍂🍁🌳 #WorldMentalHealthDay

It was great to spend time with UCC Academy yesterday, exploring the science, culture and wellness benefits of trees! UCC Arboretum Research Ireland

I will be at the UCC Ireland Open Day tomorrow (talk on BSc Applied Plant Biology, 11.15am in Western Gateway Building G02 - come one, come all). #PlantScience Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC UCC Arboretum

Great to welcome TY students from St. Vincent's to UCC Ireland yesterday to explore UCC Arboretum.

"Everything's turning to gold, Cathy". 𝐺𝑖𝑛𝑘𝑔𝑜 𝑏𝑖𝑙𝑜𝑏𝑎 at @ucctrees UCC Ireland

Autumn colours @ucctrees this week: Swamp cypress (𝑇𝑎𝑥𝑜𝑑𝑖𝑢𝑚 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑚) and Black Walnut (𝐽𝑢𝑔𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑛𝑖𝑔𝑟𝑎). Both native to north America. UCC Ireland Irish Tree Explorers Network

Well Dr Karen Bacon, how are the @uniofgalwayBPS Ginkgos doing? Some of ours are still holding on UCC Ireland

UCC Arboretum @uniofgalwayBPS UCC Ireland Not great! Looks like the wond has claimed almost all our leaves already! Your one looks glorious in full autumn colours.

Delighted to take a tour around our 175 year old arboretum UCC Ireland UCC Arboretum with the well informed 5th class girls from St. Catherine's N.S. We were impressed with their knowledge on endangered species, medicines from plants, biodiversity and more besides Research Ireland Global Plant Council

Fantastic to have the brilliant 5th class students from St. Catherine's N.S. visit the UCC Ireland Arboretum today. Learning (and teaching us) lots about trees, biodiversity and climate! Research Ireland Irish Tree Explorers Network UCC Arboretum Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC

Rang a 5 were TREE-ted 🌳to a wonderful tour of the Aboretum at UCC today!🌳🌲🎋We learned so much about the many different species of trees there. Thank you so much to Barbara, Eoin and Gabriela UCC Arboretum

Special event at UCC on Tuesday for #scienceweek2024. See you there!

A special thanks to the wonderful JP Quinn for an eye-opening tour of campus today, including an opportunity to see some of our @ucctrees from a whole new vantage point.

Great event yesterday for #ScienceWeek at Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UCC: Plants for the Future. 🌻🥦🍓🍏🌳🌲🍁 Research Ireland UCC Research SEFS@UCC

For #ScienceWeek, Dr Eoin Lettice posting now on Bluesky will talk this evening to the Cork Literary & Scientific Society on "Telling stories about trees: the science and culture of Ireland's tree collections". All welcome (there is a small charge for non-members). Details: corkliteraryandscientificsociety.ie

The @ucctrees group are selling UCC Arboretum Christmas cards in the Hub UCC Ireland today until 1pm. €5 per pack. All proceeds go to Pieta House. 🌲🌲🌲🌲

You can listen to the sounds of various forests around the world here. tree.fm

The first batch size of these bowls sold out in two hours. Larger Bowls are due next week be will be released for further sale. For enquiries email [email protected]. @ucc UCC IrelandAlumDevel UCC Arboretum

A final year undergraduate student is working on a project regarding public perception of the UCC Arboretum/Tree Collection. If you have a few minutes, please complete the following survey: forms.gle/BBmmx4shJqbwVp…

You may be interested in this FREE one-day symposium taking place at Fota, Cork on March 19th. From Root to Branch: Rethinking Our Relationship with Trees. Free to attend but you must register here: eventbrite.ie/e/from-root-to…