After over 20 years, our nutmeg tree has produced fruit 😲🌳
They are now ripe, as you can see from the vivid red covering that forms a lattice around the nutmeg seed.
The seed is used to make nutmeg and the lattice to make mace.
NEWS: Eden Project Morecambe has been awarded a £50m investment by the Gov’s Levelling Up Fund. Thank you to the
#Morecambe
community and our partners for their unwavering support and contribution:
@LancasterCC
,
@LancashireCC
, Lancashire Enterprise Partnership &
@LancasterUni
We’ve partnered with
@PlayStationUK
to light our Biomes like Aloy’s Shieldwing in the new game
#HorizonForbiddenWest
. Thanks to this partnership, our National Wildflower Centre will create 12 acres of wildflower habitat in Morecambe, Lancashire.
This is the first image of how Eden Project Dundee might look. We've just signed a memorandum with the owners of the preferred site,
@nationalgriduk
and
@SGNgas
, to explore the practicalities of converting the former Dundee Gasworks.
We are delighted to have reached the point of having planning permission unanimously approved for Eden Project North, bringing the project one step closer to reality 🙌
#EdenProjectNorth
is shovel-ready and work now continues to secure investment.
We’re working with
@DundeeCouncil
and
@dundeeuni
to explore the feasibility of an ‘Eden Project Scotland’ in Dundee. it's part of our portfolio of regenerative international projects with an overarching theme of humanity’s connection to the natural world.
📢 We’re submitting a planning application for Eden Project Dundee this autumn 🎉 Aiming to transform the city’s former gasworks into a beacon for regeneration and green tourism 💚🌎
@DundeeCouncil
@dundeeuni
2022, our celebrations - 3
👷 Received planning permission for Eden Project North in Morecambe – reimagining the seaside resort, exploring innovative ways of engaging with the natural world
#EdenProjectNorth
It’s hard to believe that this is what our site used to look like!
We bought an exhausted, steep-sided clay pit 60 metres deep, with no soil, 15 metres below the water table, and essentially gave it life 🌱🌴🍄🌺🌻
#EdenProject
We’re proud to reach our 20th birthday today! We'll look forward to what the next 20 years will hold and to demonstrating that the future remains ours to make. 🎂💚🌍
After a ten-year campaign, we're proud to announce that we've secured funding of £16.8 million to drill the first well for our pioneering geothermal heat and power project.
We’ve just welcomed three ancient olive trees into our Med Biome, giving them a new home after they were removed to make way for younger trees in Spain and Portugal. The giant evergreens are estimated to be up to 1,500 years old!
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall
@ClarenceHouse
visited
@BBC_ARoadshow
at the Eden Project today. Her Royal Highness has been Patron of our biggest community project
@edencommunities
The Big Lunch over the last decade so it was wonderful to welcome her back to Cornwall 🌼💚
We’re excited to host a major G7 event and to welcome some very special guests to Eden. We’ll work hard to ensure there’s a positive legacy, not only for Cornwall but for a sustainable and thriving planet.
The future remains ours to make.
Thousands of people turned out to beaches today as part of Danny Boyle’s Armistice commission
#PagesoftheSea
. Eden, with support from Heligan, led the events at Porthmeor Beach in St Ives, East Looe Beach, Perranporth Beach and Saunton Sands in Devon.
@1418NOW
Huge congratulations to our co-founder Tim Smit on his Lifetime Achievement Award at tonight’s
#WMNBusinessAwards
, for making “a considerable, profitable and lasting contribution”.
"The regeneration of an old gasworks into a stunning garden of Eden is visionary...It really will be a fantastic attraction for the city and Scotland as a whole." – First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on the plans for Eden Project Dundee
We've submitted a business case for £70m of UK Government funding to help make Eden Project North in Morecambe a reality. The report presents the development as a key driver of the UK’s post-Covid green recovery.
Our titan arum opened last night -come and see this rare beauty at Eden today! It only blooms for about 48 hours, it has the largest flowering structure in the world, it’s an endangered species and it stinks of rotting flesh!
We're excited to announce that we've received £1.2m from the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership (LEP) to fund the development work needed to prepare a planning application for Eden Project North in Morecambe.
It’s feeding time at the zoo! The roul-rouls are keeping well, and we think chicks are on the way… 🐤 They’re being looked after by the small team of horticulturists carrying out essential plant care.
#Easter
#EdenProject
#Cornwall
#Rainforest
We planted this olive tree, along with two other enormous specimens, in our Biome last month. They were removed to make way for younger trees in Spain and Portugal and are thought to be up to 1,500 years old!
Our nutmeg tree has produced fruit for what could be the first time ever in the UK! 🌳
The trees produce spices mace and nutmeg, and are difficult to grow without the right conditions, so it’s a momentous occasion for us and our Horticulture Team 👏
#Nutmeg
A landmark moment for renewable energy took place at Eden today! 🔥🪨👉🌱 Geothermal energy will be supplying heat to our Biomes and our new nursery, Growing Point.
Please note that the Eden Project will be closed to all visitors from 6pm on Sunday 14 November until 10am on Monday 22 November, for an all-staff wellbeing week.
A great media buzz at the
@Camfed
garden as BBC's
@nickbailey365
chats to Clarah Zinyama of CAMFED from Zimbabwe and designer Jilayne Rickards at the gold medal-winning African Garden
#RHSChelsea
#SeeGrowth
. Look out for BBC 2 coverage on Weds eve
Today at the COP26 global summit we announced plans to open our first South American site in Colombia’s Meta region. We'll work alongside the Colombian Ministry of the Environment and the Humboldt Institute to establish how an Eden Project in Colombia might look. 🇨🇴🌎
Join us from midday today as we create huge sand portraits of fallen soldiers from the First World War on Perranporth, Porthmeor, East Looe, Porthcurno and Saunton Sands beaches for
@1418NOW
#PagesOfTheSea
Our horticulturalist Mark found this little gecko clinging to a tree which was being moved to a new location inside the Rainforest 🦎 He’s now safely enjoying life on another trunk! What shall we name him?
#Gecko
Celebrate
#nationalmeadowsday
today by getting out in the sunshine and finding some wildflowers! We're proud to be home of the National Wildflower Centre. 🌼
People often think that sunflowers are named because they look like the sun. When really, it's because their heads turn to follow the sun throughout the day, soaking up the golden rays 🌞 They always have a way of bringing instant cheer to a garden 🌻🌻🌻
Oi, Earthling! Act Now! As nearly 300 drones fly above the Eden Project, we urge all Earthlings to come together and create a better future for our planet 🌎 ACT NOW 👉
#COP26
#IAmAnEarthling
We're very excited to unveil the vision for Eden Project Foyle, a proposed new cultural tourist attraction in Derry~Londonderry
@River_Foyle
#EdenProjectFoyle
#Derry
Find out more at
Did you know, we're now home to the National Wildflower Centre? We’ve sown swathes of beautiful, native wildflower species all over Eden, to help bring biodiversity, delight and colour back into the UK's natural landscape 🌼🌸🌷
It’s official – we’ve submitted a planning application for Eden Project North in Morecambe.
Due to open in 2024, this £125m project will re-imagine the British seaside resort & inspire wonder & a connection with the natural world.
Part of the Eden Project, the National Wildflower Centre works hard to boost biodiversity across the UK by creating spaces where pollinators can thrive 🌸🌼🐝🦋
The mesmerising
#AuroraBorealis
over the Biomes on Friday. 📸: Thank you to our security staff member Jamie Roberts for capturing this incredible
#NorthernLights
moment.
A titan arum is now blooming at Eden! Unfortunately our Rainforest Biome won’t be open to visitors until 4 July but we hope you enjoy the pictures! The bloom will only last 48 hours.
We may not be able to
#makeitblue
while we’re closed, but here’s a photo from the past of our glowing blue Biomes in honour of this evening’s
#nhsclap
👏
#ClapForCarers
🙋 Hands up who’s visited the Malaysian House before, hidden away inside our Rainforest Biome. Designed like an authentic south-east Asian home garden, its vegetable plot has everything from star fruit to yardlong beans to bitter gourds 🥒 🍜
A letter signed by nearly 100 leaders, academics and educators urging the Government to provide funding for Eden Project North in its forthcoming Budget has been sent to the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
From the Forbidden West to the Eden Project – look at our iconic Biomes lit up like up Aloy's Shieldwing from the new game
#HorizonForbiddenWest
. Find out how this partnership with
@PlayStationUK
is helping to highlight the plight of wildflower habitats:
Today we reopen the doors to our Outdoor Gardens! Here’s a flavour of what you can expect when you visit, plus a sneak preview of how we’ve grown since you last saw us. Don’t forget, all visits must be booked in advance in timed slots online:
We’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas for the forthcoming Eden Project North in Morecambe. Feedback welcome from everyone, wherever you live. Take part in our Community Engagement Survey at
This orangutan made of scrap metal is the latest addition to our Rainforest Biome.
It's the work of James Wild and has been made to raise awareness of the threat that these iconic apes face from habitat loss.