Botanischer Garten Solingen
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The Botanischer Garten Solingen is a Script error: No such module "convert". botanical garden located at Vogelsang 2a, Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is open daily without charge.
Garden
The garden dates to 1952 when the city opened its first greenhouse on a 4-hectare site, with the garden itself opening in 1963. In 1965 the tropical house was built (143 m2, 8 meters in height), and in 1994-1995 the greenhouses were extended to 826 m2 by adding a cactus house and bromeliad house. In 2001 the garden was extended to over 6 hectares, and has gradually been handed off from city management to a nonprofit organization.
Today the garden's major sections are as follows:
- Alpinum (Script error: No such module "convert".) - alpine garden including Alyssum, Arabis, Aster, Aubrieta, Campanula, Cyclamen, Delphinium, Gentiana, Geranium, Primula, Ranunculus gramineus, Saxifraga, Sedum, Sempervivum, etc.
- Mediterranean garden (Script error: No such module "convert".) - plants from Southern Europe and Central America including fig, olive, and laurel trees, lavender, oregano, rosemary, sage, and thyme, as well as Cerastium and Potentilla.
- Greenhouses (Script error: No such module "convert".) - tropical house (with palm trees, sugar cane, wild rice, coca, cinnamon, and a large aquarium); orchids from Nicaragua and Vietnam; a cactus house containing about 250 species; and bromeliad house with about 220 species of bromeliad, as well as banana tree, vanilla, carnivorous plants, and coffee.
- Cottage garden (Script error: No such module "convert".) - a lawn with three maples and garden area (226 m2) patterned on descriptions of the Garden of Eden with four streams, containing flowers such as daffodil, foxglove, iris, lily of the valley, lupine, marigold, nasturtium, peony, phlox, yarrow, etc.
- Biblical Garden (Script error: No such module "convert".) - eight beds, each a different geometric form, containing plants mentioned in the Bible, including barley, cistus, olive, pomegranate, wheat, etc.
- Flora Frey garden (Script error: No such module "convert".) - garden donated by the Flora Frey company, with bulbs including Dahlia as well as Chionodoxa, Crocus, Eranthis, Erythronium, Fritillaria meleagris, Galanthus, Leucojum, Muscari, Narcissus, Puschkinia, Scilla, Tulipa, etc.
- Pergola (Script error: No such module "convert".) - wild grapes, ivy, climbing hydrangea, and trumpet flower.
- Perennials garden (Script error: No such module "convert".) - aster, daisy, larkspur, peony, etc.
- Rose Garden (Script error: No such module "convert".) - about 100 rose varieties.
- Medicinal garden (Script error: No such module "convert".) - about 40 medicinal plants known from antiquity to the Middle Ages including Malva sylvestris, marigold, peppermint, rosemary, etc.
- Herb Garden (Script error: No such module "convert".) - herbs such as chives, mint, parsley, etc.
- Wild Bee Trail - an old orchard in which bees have a natural habitat.
- Fern walls - brick walls with Gymnocarpium robertianum.
- Heather garden (Script error: No such module "convert".) - Calluna and Erica, as well as birch, yew, Forsythia, Ilex, Pieris, Rhododendron, Skimmia, etc.
- Pond area ([Script error: No such module "convert".)] of which about [Script error: No such module "convert".] is water) - Japanese cherry trees, with carp, goldfish, roach, three-spined stickleback, etc.
- Iris Garden (Script error: No such module "convert".) - iris and daylily varieties.
- Reading room (Script error: No such module "convert".)
- Primelgarten (Script error: No such module "convert".)
- Conifers - A collection of conifers including Abies and Picea specimens, as well as Araucaria, Chamaecyparis, Cryptomeria, Larix pendula, and Metasequoia.
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