Written in October 2018 The botanic garden lies in the Parc de la Tête d’Or in the center of Lyon. The park covers 117 hectares, and the botanic garden only makes up a small portion of that – but the variety of trees, shrubs and water bodies in the rest of the park makes itContinue reading “Jardin botanique du Parc de la Tête d’Or”
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Jardin botanique de la Charme in Clermont-Ferrand
Written in October 2018 Situated on the same street as the Michelin head office in an otherwise sleepy residential area of brutalist apartment complexes in suburban Clermont-Ferrand, the tiny Jardin botanique de la Charme is easy to miss. It is small, and at a first glance it looks neglected and forgotten, full of empty flowerbedsContinue reading “Jardin botanique de la Charme in Clermont-Ferrand”
The Botanical Garden of the Bathing Friends in Visby
A text written in early September 2018 Perched between the low medieval buildings of old Visby and the steel-grey Baltic lies a tiny botanic garden. For being so small, though, it manages to accommodate a great number of different plants. Cared for by the association DBW (De Badande Wännerna = the bathing friends), it hasContinue reading “The Botanical Garden of the Bathing Friends in Visby”
two seasons in the Bergius Botanic Garden
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”
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”
jardin des plantes in Paris
The main plan for my day in Paris was to visit the botanic garden, Jardin des plantes de Paris. It was established in 1635, in France only surpassed in age by the botanic garden in Montpellier (which is a lovely garden, by the way). It also figures in the beautiful but sad novel “All theContinue reading “jardin des plantes in Paris”
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”
art in the forest
Strictly speaking not a botanic garden, but I can be generous in my definitions. Smack in the middle of my study area, 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 in the wars between Sweden andContinue reading “art in the forest”
Katja Malmborg 