The Botanic Garden of Vienna is literally just next door to the Belvedere garden. But here, the plants and trees have been allowed to grow more freely. Almost too freely.
The entrance to the garden is free and the garden almost feels like a place that has been left to take care of itself. There were plenty of people sitting on the benches in the garden, eating lunch and talking, but the flower beds didn’t feel that well tended for and the trees were surrounded by shrubs.
I have this memory of reading somewhere that every nail in this tree was nailed there by different writers, as some kind of good luck or inspiration thing, but now I can’t find it anymore. The place where I read it, that is. So, I might just have made it up. Still, it was pretty cool: the porcupine tree.
One of the few flower beds that actually had flowers in them.
The Botanic Garden didn’t impress me. Still, it was nice to walk around there, in the shade from the big trees, such a huge contrast from the completely open discipline of the Belvedere garden.
Katja Malmborg 