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.
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Tourist attraction & educational charity
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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: , , Lancashire Enterprise Partnership &
We’ve partnered with 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. edenproject.com/playstation
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, and , 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.
This evening, we joined landmarks nationwide to ‘Light up the Nation’ as part of the BBC’s Coronation Concert. Did you miss it? Here's a taster of our spectacular drone show by
#LightUpTheNation #CoronationConcert
We’re working with and 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. edenproject.com/media/2020/05/
Excited to reveal plans for Eden Project North, coming to Morecambe, Lancashire – in partnership with . Designed by , the pavilions in this reimagined seaside resort for the 21st century are inspired by mussels.
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
Celebrating at the garden after winning gold at #RHSChelsea today! We’re proud to have supplied the plants for this garden 😁
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. edenproject.com/geothermal
Happy 22nd birthday to us 🎈 RT if you remember when we were first built 👷
We can’t wait for Sunday’s special episode filmed here at Eden 🌿 RT if you’d like to see some Cornish treasures 💎 #AntiquesRoadshow
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.
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!
We were delighted to host the Queen Consort alongside Fiona Bruce and the team 📺 Tune in tonight at 8pm #AntiquesRoadshow
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.
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall visited at the Eden Project today. Her Royal Highness has been Patron of our biggest community project The Big Lunch over the last decade so it was wonderful to welcome her back to Cornwall 🌼💚
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”.
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.
"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
Celebrations garden #RHSChelsea as the African Garden wins a gold medal. The garden will be coming to Eden after the show.
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
Following UFO sightings across Cornwall this week, we’ve just seen this flying over our Biomes! #ufocornwall
Take a disused china clay pit and create life in it.
We understood the assignment 🌱
Our Biomes will be lit in rainbow colours for our Proud Eden LGBTQ event today. Talks, shows, music & more 2.30-10pm edenproject.com/visit/whats-on
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
Look - our titan arum opened last night! Come and see this giant, stinking corpse flower today or tomorrow. #timelapse
RT : First 2014 announcement! will play Eden on 8 July. Tickets now on sale to Inside Trackers
RT if you'd like to visit the Eden Project to learn about the importance of plants 🌱🧐
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.
A great media buzz at the garden as BBC's 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
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.
#HappyStPatricksDay! It's also our 18th birthday today! Eden is one of a number of famous landmarks turned green by to mark #StPatricksDay.
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 #PagesOfTheSea edenproject.com/armistice
What a difference a few days make…last week we were covered in snow, today we've had beautiful sunshine and blue skies!
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. 🇨🇴🌎
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
What’s so special about #seagrass? Narrated by & , this animation dives into the importance of seagrass meadows and their impact. See the full-length animation: youtu.be/aW9WJZaD9Ds
#SeagrassMatters
So pleased to feature as one of the landmark buildings in 's special issue stamps. royalmail.com/landmarkbuildi
Celebrate #nationalmeadowsday today by getting out in the sunshine and finding some wildflowers! We're proud to be home of the National Wildflower Centre. 🌼
Great shot of a clear night over the Biomes, by Eden Team member Arran Walton.
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 🌼🌸🌷
We're very excited to unveil the vision for Eden Project Foyle, a proposed new cultural tourist attraction in Derry~Londonderry #EdenProjectFoyle #Derry
Find out more at edenproject.com/foyle
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 🌻🌻🌻
A pleasure to have (AKA Juan Borgia and #Victoria’s Prince Ernest) here to record an interview with our Head of Interpretation for
A team of rainforest scientists camped in aerial tents called portaledges for the at Eden last night. A snooze in the sky!
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 👉 edenproject.com/act-now #COP26 #IAmAnEarthling
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 sent pollen from our titan arum to to pollinate theirs– couriered on ice to arrive fresh within the 48hr blooming window
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.
We’re thrilled to hear we’ve received funding thanks to the government’s #CultureRecoveryFund so that we can continue to be here for you and #HereForCulture. Thank you to and 🙏
🥇 We've won a GOLD medal at #RHSChelsea for our peatland display with , which encourages gardeners to switch to #peatfree. Thanks to for the ‘borrowed’ slice of bog.
🙋 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 🥒 🍜
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 is helping to highlight the plight of wildflower habitats: edenproject.com/playstation
Space is as close as Exeter! If this has piqued your interest, be sure to explore our Expedition Space extravaganza this summer: edenproject.com/space
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
Lovely photo of a rainbow over the Biomes, taken on Monday by visitor Ian Wilcox. 🌈
Cornish pasties in all shapes and sizes at our eighth World Pasty Championships today! 😋 #pastychamps #CornishPastyWeek
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.
It took astronaut just 8.5 min to get to space! Hear about his life on the ISS at 3.15 today. edenproject.com/space-experts
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.
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: edenproject.com/visiting-durin
Apologies for any delays on our Land Train, a blackbird has nested in the tractor wheel and its chicks are hatching!
Lovely to see our roul-rouls helping each other out during lockdown 😊
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 edenproject.com/north
Daffodils are blooming in abundance in our Outdoor Gardens at the moment.🌞
While Eden is closed to visitors, we’d like to continue showing you our beautiful plants to brighten your day. The tulips are looking spectacular in our Mediterranean Biome. 💐🌷
Today is the Spring Equinox! Longer days and warmer weather are just around the corner. #springequinox
