You know my thing for botanic gardens. I have a neat collection now, 28 gardens on four continents. A bit surprising, then (or maybe, absolutely not) that I have not yet written a proper post about the botanic garden just next door: the Bergius Botanic Garden, run by Stockholm University. There is one post fromContinue reading “two seasons in the Bergius Botanic Garden”
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the ethnobotanic garden of Oaxaca
I was so excited about the ethnobotanical garden in Oaxaca. It is one of the top sites in the city and it’s an ETHNObotanic garden. Ethnobotany has become one of my academic side interests ever since my visit to Burkina Faso, so I was seriously pumped about this place. And then I arrived, and realisedContinue reading “the ethnobotanic garden of Oaxaca”
a rough diamond of Göttingen
Göttingen, being an old university town with biology and agronomy as two of their strong disciplines, has three botanic gardens. I managed to visit two. And I fell like a pine tree (as the Swedish saying goes). The old garden, situated on the edge of the old city center, is a slightly overgrown, wondrously romanticContinue reading “a rough diamond of Göttingen”
at the pumpkin patch
One of the days I was visiting Dries and he was working, I took the train and bus from Hasselt to the botanic garden in Meise outside of Brussels. It is BIG. Impressive. Covering 92 hectares of land, it can not be fully seen in a day. I could have spent several there, wandering aroundContinue reading “at the pumpkin patch”
the green domes of Zürich & words of care
Of course I visited the botanic garden in Zürich too. I’ve been trying to figure it out. Where this interest comes from. My obsession with botanic gardens. I’d like to say there’s something profound about it – but maybe it’s just a type of collection. I come from a family of collectors, list-makers and chroniclers.Continue reading “the green domes of Zürich & words of care”
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, revisited
It is raining. I’m sitting in the new apartment, by my old desk, Natalia came to visit yesterday and she said “You’re a city girl now” and I guess that’s true. I live just inside the “tullarna” (=tollgates), as the Stockholm definition of the city stands. I am surrounded by mostly hard-made surfaces and flowerbeds,Continue reading “Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, revisited”
reunions & winter gardens in Oslo
Two months ago, I took the train to Oslo. We were a whole crew, going to visit Hanna, my former classmate who just moved there to start a PhD. Half of my master’s class, renting a beautiful apartment in central Oslo for the weekend. My first stop was Botanisk Hage, the Oslo university botanical garden,Continue reading “reunions & winter gardens in Oslo”
Montpellier botanical garden
Narrow streets and cheese are definitely some of the most enjoyable things with Montpellier – but, not surprisingly, what I liked the most about this university town was the botanical garden. Jardin des Plantes was established in 1593, making it the oldest botanical garden in France. It is a green oasis in the otherwise quiteContinue reading “Montpellier botanical garden”
magic Midsummer at Bergius Botanical Garden (mid-June)
Just across an oak grove hill from my office lies the Stockholm university botanical garden, called Bergianska after two Swedish important botanists who established the first botanical garden in the same location in the 18th century. A couple of days before Midsummer, I went to a guided tour of Bergianska’s herb garden, and the themeContinue reading “magic Midsummer at Bergius Botanical Garden (mid-June)”
flowers of the Southern Öland world heritage (mid-May)
During my visit to Kalmar, I also took the bike ferry across the water to Öland, the second of Sweden’s two large islands. About half the island, the southern part, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, due to its very old agricultural landscape. Special climatological and geological conditions combined with hundreds of years of agriculturalContinue reading “flowers of the Southern Öland world heritage (mid-May)”
Katja Malmborg 