49 The Botanical Garden of Barcelona might be the most unique botanic garden I’ve ever been to. Among the stadiums from the Summer Olympic Games of 1992 on Montjuïc hill, the botanic garden takes up 14 hectares of hilly terrain. It was established in 1999 and is dedicated to cultivating and displaying plants and ecosystemsContinue reading “Barcelona (i)”
Category Archives: botanic gardens
Lund (i)
48 It is rather small, the botanic garden in Lund. Situated behind a solid brick wall on the outskirts of the old town, it is like a green little universe of its own. The high, old trees shelter the garden from the noises outside, and it is easy to forget you are in the secondContinue reading “Lund (i)”
Wanås (i)
46 Strictly speaking not a botanic garden, but I can be generous in my definitions. Smack in the middle of the study area for my PhD project, in the municipality of Östra Göinge, lies the castle Wanås. It has a history stretching back into the 15th century and the castle played an important role inContinue reading “Wanås (i)”
Oaxaca (ii)
44 The ethnobotanical garden in Oaxaca lies in the former monastery gardens, the beds separated by a grid of narrow gravel paths and surrounded by the high monastery stone walls. It was originally part of the 17th century monastery grounds, and it wasn’t opened as an ethnobotanic garden until 1998. The surrounding buildings, the formerContinue reading “Oaxaca (ii)”
Meise (i)
40 Half an hour or so with a commuter bus from central Brussels lies the Meise botanic garden. It is BIG. Impressive. Covering 92 hectares of land, it can not be fully seen in a day. When I visited in 2017, I could have spent several days there, wandering around in the groves and thematicContinue reading “Meise (i)”
Zagreb (i)
38 Right next to the railway tracks lies Zagreb Botanical Garden. It is a small garden and not particularly well organized, but it didn’t have an entrance fee. In the afternoon one of my days in Zagreb in 2013, the air turned clammy by a heavy summer rain, a walk among the water lily poolsContinue reading “Zagreb (i)”
Vienna (i)
37 I have a fuzzy memory of reading that every nail in this tree in the Botanic Garden of the University of Vienna was nailed there by different writers, as good luck or inspiration. But I can’t find my notes from that day. So, I might just have made it up. Still, it was prettyContinue reading “Vienna (i)”
Göttingen (i)
36 Göttingen has three botanic gardens: the historic one in the city center and two others, situated outside the city close to one of the university campuses. When I visited in 2017, my friend Esther told me that the university doesn’t want to manage the old garden, since no research to speak of is conductedContinue reading “Göttingen (i)”
Zürich (i)
35 I think the botanic garden in Zürich is a good place to learn care. It is small, but well kept, with winding trails across the hills and through the groves of beeches and lime-trees. The dome-shaped greenhouses were both architecturally interesting and intensely lush inside. A really nice hidden corner of Zürich. Yet anotherContinue reading “Zürich (i)”
Cambridge (i)
32 It’s midsummer’s eve 2013 and I’m sitting in a little hidden corner of the limestone garden in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden, a bench with a seat shaped like a half circle, sheltered by high rock walls covered in purple flowers on three sides. The bees seem to love the purple flowers, because theContinue reading “Cambridge (i)”
Katja Malmborg 