103 The botanic garden in Copenhagen has a beautiful old greenhouse. And butterflies fluttering around among the rainforest trees in one of its rooms. I sat there, in the humidity, while touristing Swedish families tried to catch the flighty butterflies on camera, amused at their efforts. And it was very nice, on this last stopContinue reading “Copenhagen (ii)”
Category Archives: botanic gardens
Bergius (vii)
102 The last snow is melting. We got a month. On my run in the forest today, it was so strange, I saw a fly. In the shadows under the trees, the ground is still covered in melting snow. And there: a fly. It must be so confused. But I did enjoy the snow, whileContinue reading “Bergius (vii)”
Portland (ii)
101 The snow is melting now. Big puddles of water everywhere. It makes me think of spring. And flowers in the spring. Flowers after a heavy late spring rain. I can’t wait. This is a time of biding. // Few flowers beat the rose for beauty. Voluptuous, soft, fragrant. And after a summer rain, theContinue reading “Portland (ii)”
Edmonton (ii)
100 It’s not big, the conservatory in Edmonton, with four greenhouse pyramids: the arid, the tropical, the temperate and the feature (during my visit in 2012 holding an exhibit of teddy bears having a picnic). It’s pretty, though. The smells and the sound of running water in both the temperate and tropical pyramids have suchContinue reading “Edmonton (ii)”
Oslo (i)
99 This morning, I had a Zoom hang with half of my former master’s class. It was such a wonderful community, the group of people I got my master’s degree with back in 2015. Now, sitting by my kitchen table, it felt like such an amazing thing, to be able to connect across space andContinue reading “Oslo (i)”
Bergius (vi)
87 When the sun goes down on a December afternoon, the Edvard Anderson greenhouses shine like green oases in the icy darkness. To enter the middle house, being met by the Mediterranean smells, just breathing it it. Or the moisture in the tropical house, like a caress. And the darkness outside. Sitting in the palmContinue reading “Bergius (vi)”
Cambridge (ii)
86 Compared to other botanic gardens I’ve been to in the UK, the Cambridge University Botanic Garden is not large. But it has everything you need in a botanic garden, with that typical British eye for lush detail and secret nooks. And they even had a grass garden. Flower beds full of different kinds ofContinue reading “Cambridge (ii)”
Nitobe, Vancouver (i)
85 The Nitobe Memorial garden in Vancouver is a traditional Japanese garden, tucked in between a few ugly buildings and a small piece of forest with huge Douglas firs on the University of British Columbia campus. On a road nearby, there was quite a lot of traffic, but the moment I walked in through theContinue reading “Nitobe, Vancouver (i)”
Prague
84 The city has two botanic gardens. I only had time to visit the historic one, run by the Faculty of Science at Charles University, during my brief stay in the city in 2013. It was a lovely little green jewel, wedged in between the concentrated downtown city tangle on the east bank of theContinue reading “Prague”
Bergius (v)
83 God jul, hyvää joulua, merry X-mas, wherever you find yourself in the end of this the strangest of years. May your day be calm and joyful. The Edvard Anderson greenhouses in Bergius botanic garden change with the seasons. Maybe they do this in other botanic garden greenhouses as well. I wouldn’t know, as IContinue reading “Bergius (v)”
Katja Malmborg 