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The old botanic garden in Hamburg has a greenhouse complex, built in 1962. Large, with different rooms, like walking through the tropical biomes in miniature. It felt, somehow, a bit more ornamental than some of the very systematic greenhouses that I’ve visited, like the one in Meise, but it was intensely green and lush and breathing that warm, humid air was such a relief from the autumn chill outside. And the light, again. That day in October was incredible. There is something about the quality of the light in October that is so cleansing, less demanding than in summer and not as piercing as in winter. Just clear. Beautiful, streaming through the glass roof of the greenhouse.
Photo: Alter Botanischer Garten Hamburg, Germany, October 2018. Posted on Instagram April 20, 2021.
Katja Malmborg 