10 Informative Facts About Gothenburg Botanical Garden

Facts About Gothenburg Botanical Garden

Facts About Gothenburg Botanical Garden

  1. The Gothenburg Botanical Garden was inaugurated in 1923 when Gothenburg celebrated its 300th anniversary.
  2. The City of Gothenburg handed over the operation of the Garden to Region Västra Götaland Regional Council in 1998.
  3. As many as 16,000 plant species can be seen out-of-doors as well as 4,000 species in the greenhouses.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. The Botanical Garden has two stars in the Michelin Green Guide.
  7. The Gothenburg Botanical Garden is located in Gothenburg, Sweden, and is one of the larger botanical gardens in Europe.
  8. The herb garden, opened in 2006, features herbs and medicinal plants, many of them with a fascinating history.
  9. 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
  10. 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.
Facts About Gothenburg Botanical Garden
Facts About Gothenburg Botanical Garden

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