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Botanical Garden of Saint-Vincent and the Grenadines

SVG boasts a diverse collection of biological resources. St. Vincent is rugged and mountainous with steep slopes and fertile yellow earth, volcanic ash and alluvial soils. The country has about 12,700 ha of tropical forests, including primary and secondary rainforest, palm brakes, elfin woodland, littoral woodland, dry scrub woodlands and mangrove forest. The significant tropical forests provide natural habitat for wildlife including the St. Vincent parrot and other endemic species. The Grenadines, in contrast, consists of low dry islands surrounded by extensive coral reefs and seagrass beds.

University of Puerto Rico Botanic Garden

Conceived as an educational center for scientific research and a sociocultural meeting place, it is a living laboratory for the study of tropical plants and the many species of birds that inhabit it. It is also a recreation and leisure area for its visitors. Its properties cover some 289 acres of land. It has a Herbarium that houses more than 36,000 specimens of stuffed plants. The Garden provides the public with knowledge on issues related to native flora and information on ecological issues for the preparation of school projects

Francisco Javier Clavijero Botanical Garden

The formation of INECOL arose around the interest in developing research on the use of natural resources, conservation and biodiversity in Mexico. In turn, this interest stemmed from the need to have basic studies and scientifically founded answers to solve ecological problems derived from the use of natural resources. This position has allowed us to gather an important accumulation of experiences and is still valid today. With this, it seeks to support with solid foundations the establishment of adequate policies and mechanisms to continue and promote the development of the country, avoiding as much as possible the affectation of the environment and the biological wealth of the ecosystems, which condition the quality of life and the well-being of the population.

FOREST THE COLOMOS

Bosque Los Colomos is an urban park northeast of the city of Guadalajara, capital of the Mexican state of Jalisco. The park is located on the limits of Guadalajara and Zapopan, forming one of the lungs of the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area.

Oaxaca Ethnobotanical Garden

The Ethnobotanical Garden displays hundreds of plant species live, all of them native to Oaxaca. We started planting them in July 1998. The plants come from different regions of the State, both from arid and humid climates, from lowland tropics and temperate and cold mountainous areas. The Garden thus represents the great diversity of climates, geological formations and types of vegetation that characterize Oaxaca.

Edward James Sculpture Garden, Las Pozas

The Edward James Sculpture Garden, Las Pozas was created by Edward Frank Willis James, an eccentric British poet, artist and patron of the Surrealist movement. James created a fusion between the organic and the artificial, between the jungle and the concrete, which merges the two worlds into one. The total area of the Garden is 37 hectares dedicated to ecological conservation, of these 9 hectares make up the sculpture garden, where you can admire more than 28 structures and sculptures. In 2007 the Fundación Pedro y Elena Hernández, AC, acquired Las Pozas with the purpose of preserving the sculptures and conserving the ecosystem.

University of Mexico Botanical Garden

The National University, in its effort to contribute to the scientific knowledge of the biodiversity of Mexico and the world, as well as to fulfill its social responsibility, carries out research, teaching and extension of culture. For this reason, part of our commitments is to make society aware of the work we do and the collection we have, as well as the national collections that are under our protection. So that you know more, have fun and commit to caring for biodiversity, we invite you to visit our beautiful living museum that is the Botanical Garden and the great National Biodiversity Pavilion, which is a research site with an exhibition area with specimens , which has information and organizes activities for you.

Le Volksgarten

Think roses. Are you thinking of roses? Good. Now think of even more roses.

Huge beds of tiered roses fill the sides of the Rose Garden: tall bushes at the back and smaller standards and bushes near the front. And each a different variety.

The flowers form a kaleidoscope of colour in the late spring and summer. And each rosebush carries a personal dedication to a lover, family member or similar.

Les Jardins de Hellbrunn (Schloss Hellbrunn Garten)

You never know exactly what to expect in Hellbrunn. But one thing is certain: it never gets boring! Water machines, grottos and insidious spray fountains have been making faces wet and, above all, smiling for over 400 years. Explore Hellbrunn and embark on an entertaining journey through time to the era of Prince Archbishop Markus Sittikus. He built Hellbrunn as a place for entertainment and pleasure. And it has not changed until today.

Augarten Botanical Garden

The Augarten is a 52.2 ha public garden in the 2 nd district of the city and which houses the oldest Baroque botanical garden in Vienna. This French-style garden also offers large beds of magnificent flowers, large shaded paths of chestnut trees, elms, lime trees, ash trees and maples. However, as with almost all of the city’s public parks, access to the park is impossible at night, as the five park gates are closed. (from dusk to early morning – the times, which vary according to the season, are indicated on a metal panel in front of each of the doors.)

Schoenbrunn Palace Gardens

The park at Schönbrunn Palace was opened to the public around 1779 and since then has provided a popular recreational amenity for the Viennese population as well as being a focus of great cultural and historical interest for international visitors. Extending for 1.2 km from east to west and approximately one kilometre from north to south, it was placed together with the palace on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1996.

Mainau Island Gardens

Lush blooms all year round, a park with trees over 150 years old, the baroque splendor of the castle complex and church, plus the Mediterranean character – that is Mainau, the flower island in Lake Constance. Today Bettina Countess Bernadotte and Björn Count Bernadotte are at the helm of the company. The fourth Bernadotte generation following Count Lennart strives to continue the well-founded philosophy that has been developed since 1932 and to maintain an oasis of natural beauty, harmony and relaxation for visitors from all over the world, indeed to create it again and again. Forgetting the stress of everyday life and the over-engineered age for a few hours and finding relaxation in the “deceleration” should be the benefit for the Mainau guests when they visit the flower island in Lake Constance, which is favored by the climate and is unique in the world.

Botanical Garden of the University of Würzburg

The University of Würzburg has had a botanical garden since 1696 . It emerged from the medicinal plant garden (Hortus medicus) of the Juliusspital in today’s city center and is now, after its third relocation, on the southern outskirts of the city. In 1960 work began on the new system on the Mittlerer Dallenbergweg. The Botanical Garden is a central institution of the University of Würzburg. It serves various sub-disciplines of botany and other university institutions as an important aid in research and teaching. It is open to the public.

Les Jardins du château de Schwetzingen

The park of Schwetzingen Castle is a unique cultural monument in Europe: more than 100 sculptures adorn the park, which is both magnificent and surprising. Picturesque works of art lead visitors into distant and foreign worlds. The Temple of Apollo features the Greek god of light and the arts playing the lyre in a circular temple. Also worth seeing: the thermal baths, a small building for relaxation with a garden, designed on the plan of an Italian villa. The park’s Turkish garden houses the Nicholas de Pigage mosque, the largest building of its type in a German park. This late-baroque mosque, with many oriental elements, however, played a purely decorative and not religious role.

Sanssouci Park

Visitors can wander through the changing styles of exquisite garden art. The aesthetics and philosophy of the former residents of these palace complexes can be discovered in the perfectly formed garden areas, architecture, water features or in the more than 1,000 sculptures. The approximately 300-hectare Sanssouci Park stretches more than two kilometers from east to west. You should allow time for a detailed tour. Almost 60 gardeners lovingly tend beds, hedges, trees and extensive meadows. The magnificent parterre at the foot of Sanssouci Palace is decorated twice a year with over 230,000 plants based on historical models.

Wilhelma Zoo and Botanical Garden

Numerous animals and plants worldwide are increasingly threatened . Their natural habitats are being pushed back as forests have to make way for arable land and road construction. Poaching and illegal hunting are also decimating the natural population of many species. Together with our visitors, we are committed to projects worldwide.

Nymphenburg Botanical Garden in Munich

Around 19,600 species and subspecies are cultivated in the Munich-Nymphenburg Botanical Garden, which covers an area of 21.2 hectares. Together with the outstation, the alpine garden on the Schachen (1,860 m²), the botanical garden is involved in national and international research projects, to which it supplies important material and observation data. It has the task of collecting, examining, cultivating and exhibiting wild and cultivated plants from all over the world and thus from different climatic regions according to scientific criteria. His collection of living plants is also used for research, for which the demand from all over the world is constantly increasing.

Heidelberg Botanical Garden

Founded in 1593, the Heidelberg Botanical Garden is one of the oldest botanical gardens of all: important scientific work by Heidelberg botanists is inextricably linked to it, and its research and conservation collections are world-famous. There is also a herbarium with around 350,000 specimens.

Botanischer Garten Frankfurt

The future of the botanical garden and the possibilities of its preservation were discussed as early as the 1990s, with the planning of the complete relocation of the biological institutes to the Riedberg. Due to the physical distance, it could only be used to a limited extent for teaching and research at the university. However, the garden at this location had developed into a cultural asset worth preserving in the more than 50 years of development – with a valuable inventory of tree species and other plants from all over the world (over 5,000 species).

Botanical Garden of TU Dresden

In the heart of the city, the Dresden Botanical Garden invites you to explore the fascinating world of plants. About 10.000 plant species grow at the terrain at the edge of the Großer Garten, the biggest and oldest park in the city-centre. The origin of the plant collection dates back to the year 1815. Today, the Botanical Garden Dresden is a central academic unit of Technische Universität Dresden and as such is integrated into research and academic education in numerous ways. Moreover, we offer various possibilities for the public and school classes to learn more about plants.

Universitat Bonn Botanical Gardens

In addition to large research collections of titan arums, carnivorous plants, impatiens and flower nettles, remarkable special collections of Proteaceae and Vellociaceae, geophytes from Europe and Anatolia, as well as useful plants from all over the world have been brought together at Bonn University Botanic Gardens.

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin

The Botanic Garden is a magical place that speaks to all your senses. Plunge in this green oasis, relax at the lakeside, walk along picturesque trails – in our Garden nature always has a season. Our Botanic Garden counts as one of the largest and most important botanical gardens in the world. This is not only due to its surface, but also to the variety of its plants, that count over 20,000 types.

Bucaco National Forest

The National Forest of Bussaco is a heritage of incalculable value, unique in Portugal and in the world. It currently occupies 105 hectares and has one of the best dendrological collections in Europe, with around 250 species of trees and shrubs with notable specimens. It is one of the richest national forests in natural, architectural and cultural heritage, and can be divided into three landscape units: Arboretum, Gardens and Vale dos Fetos and Relic Forest. Classified as a Property of Public Interest, the monumental complex of Bussaco mobilizes an exceptional heritage wealth. In addition to the central nucleus formed by the Palace Hotel do Bussaco and the Convent of Santa Cruz, the hermitages, the chapels of devotion and the Steps that make up the Via Sacra, the Fence with the Doors, the Military Museum and the commemorative monument of the Batalha do Bussaco, the crosses, the fountains (the Fonte Fria with its monumental staircase stands out) and the cisterns, the viewpoints (the one at Cruz Alta offers a privileged view over the entire region between Coimbra and Serra do Caramulo) or the forest houses.

Quinta da Regaleira Palace Gardens

Sintra was, in the 19th century, one of the first cradles of romantic architecture in Europe. Its unique climate and consequent nature attracted the gaze of those who, touched by the landscape, dared to retouch it with stunning architecture in Edenic harmony, conducive to the contemplation of Beauty and the Sublime.

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