Alpine garden

A alpinum (or alpine garden ) is a special rock garden with a focus on alpine flora and plants from other alpine regions of the world. A rockery is mostly made ​​of stones or rocks and should mimic the situation in the high mountains. In the gaps and joints between the stone construction, but also directly in the columns or holes of the rocks used high-alpine plants are cultivated. Usually you already confined solely due to the contrasting growing seasons on plants of the Northern Hemisphere. Often, in addition to a Freilandalpinum also a so-called Alpine House is operated in the year-round plants can be cultivated. Especially in winter mild and rainy areas (such as the UK or Ireland) alpine plants are cultivated in a alpine house. As the first high-alpine garden true of Anton Kerner von Marilaun 1875 at Blaser in Tyrol at an altitude of 2,190 meters scale rockery.

Typical plants in an alpine garden are:

  • Androsace ( Androsace spp.)
  • Bellflower (Campanula spp., Alpine species )
  • Carnations (Dianthus spp., Alpine species )
  • Gentians (Gentiana spp.)
  • Ball Flowers ( Globularia spp.)
  • Edelweiss ( Leontopodium alpinum)
  • Pasque flower (Pulsatilla spp.)
  • Primroses (Primula spp., Alpine species )
  • Buttercup ( Ranunculus spp., Alpine species )
  • Saxifrage ( Saxifraga spp.)

Botanical gardens with a rockery

  • Alpine garden at Maran Arosa
  • Alpinum Schatzalp Davos
  • Botanical Gardens Berlin
  • Botanical Garden Bern
  • Botanical Garden Bielefeld
  • Botanical Garden of the Ruhr - University Bochum
  • Botanical Garden Dusseldorf
  • Alpine Garden on Schachen
  • Nature park Falkenstein
  • Botanical garden casting
  • Botanical Garden of the Goethe- University Frankfurt am Main
  • Botanical Garden Graz
  • Loki Schmidt Garden
  • Botanical Garden Kiel
  • Nature Park Landseer Berge
  • Botanical Garden Liberec
  • Maschpark
  • Botanical Garden Munich- Nymphenburg
  • Botanical Gardens Munster
  • Botanical Garden Osnabrück
  • Botanical Garden of Padua
  • Botanical Garden of the University of Marburg
  • Botanical Gardens Potsdam
  • Botanical Garden of Tübingen
  • Botanical Garden Zurich
  • Pforzheim
  • Kaufbeuren im Allgäu
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