Facts About Gothenburg Botanical Garden
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The Gothenburg Botanical Garden was inaugurated in 1923 when Gothenburg celebrated its 300th anniversary.
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The City of Gothenburg handed over the operation of the Garden to Region Västra Götaland Regional Council in 1998.
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As many as 16,000 plant species can be seen out-of-doors as well as 4,000 species in the greenhouses.
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he Garden was initially funded by a donation from the Charles Felix Lindberg Foundation, in special memory of Charles Felix Lindberg himself. Lindberg was a Swedish businessman and donor, who died in 1909.
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In 2003 the Gothenburg Botanical Garden was voted the loveliest park in Sweden, in a version of the international poll initiated by Briggs & Stratton, one of the leading manufacturers of garden machinery. It was the first time the competition had been arranged in Sweden.
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The Botanical Garden has two stars in the Michelin Green Guide.
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The Gothenburg Botanical Garden is located in Gothenburg, Sweden, and is one of the larger botanical gardens in Europe.
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The herb garden, opened in 2006, features herbs and medicinal plants, many of them with a fascinating history.
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The Gardens are home to one of the rarest trees in the world, the Easter Island Tree, whose original habitat was in the South Pacific until 1962
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The symbol of the garden is a white wood anemone. These flowers carpet the valleys of the Woodlands and the Nature Reserve in the spring.
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