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132 Compared to other botanic gardens, like Kew in London or Meise outside of Brussels, the Bergius garden is not big. But somehow, they have still managed to divide it into several distinctly different parts, sections with such completely different characteristics. There are the flowerbeds with garden flowers, the sections representing different more or lessContinue reading “Bergius (viii)”

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)”

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)”

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)”

51 During the summer months, the small Victoria greenhouse down by the water in the Bergius Botanic Garden is also open. It is tiny, completely taken up by a circular pool with Victoria water lilies, and a small selection of other tropical plants surrounding it. It is really pretty. Photo: Inside the Victoria greenhouse inContinue reading “Bergius (iv)”

17 The separation of the “wild” and the “unnatural” has a long history, but became all the rage among the nineteenth century naturalists and conservationists. This is also a time when many botanic gardens where established, which is why I think it is so rare to find sections with cultivated, non-ornamental plants in botanic gardens.Continue reading “Bergius (iii)”

16 Maybe what I like the most in the Bergius Botanic Garden is the herb, fruit and vegetable garden. That is not a very common feature in botanic garden contexts, the cultivated and non-ornamental. Showing the plants that we rely on for sustenance and that might be the clearest examples of what can come outContinue reading “Bergius (ii)”

4 What more suitable botanic garden to start with, than the first one I ever visited as a child, the one run by the university that employs me, the one I stroll through during my lunchtime walks (or at least used to, when going to the office was still a thing one did). Bergius botanicContinue reading “Bergius (i)”