Gothenburg Botanical Garden

Gothenburg Botanical Garden is located in the district of the municipality Änggården Majorna - Linné in Gothenburg. The main section is 175 acres in size and was inaugurated in 1923 in connection with the 300th anniversary of the city. Approximately 320 acres in the adjoining Nature Reserve are the Botanical Gardens as Arboretum. Unlike other botanical gardens in Sweden it is not connected to the local university. He was, however, until 1998, owned by the City of Gothenburg and has since been one of the county of Västra Götaland County.

The garden has a decisive role in the conservation of the species Toromiro ( Sophora toromiro ), which was originally endemic to Easter Island.

As a symbol of the garden, the wood anemone was chosen.

History

In connection with the 300th anniversary celebrations of Gothenburg, the city government decided to set up a botanical garden. For the planning of the biologist and geologist Rutger Sernander was recruited, who commissioned his colleague Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg with the line of work. Skottsberg was then the first director of the garden. The financial security of 2.2 million crowns expensive project was assured with funds from a donation fund of tycoon Charles Felix Lindberg. The plot, in which the former estate Stora Änggården located, was already in the city. Construction began in 1916 but it was delayed until after the 300 - year celebration (1921) and as the inauguration took place only on July 8, 1923.

In 1956 the garden seeds of probably the last surviving Toromiro tree. This had collected the Norwegian naturalist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl on his Easter Island expedition (1955 /56). Just three years after the arrival they tried to draw plants. Five seeds were allowed to germinate the following year. For more cuttings plant specimens were collected, which passed on to other botanical gardens, raised there and propagated. Gothenburg's copy is now in the greenhouse of the Botanical Garden.

The Park

The garden was in a hilly area rising gradually to the nature reserve towards applied. This enabled a simple separation of the different areas. Here there is a large rock garden with about 5000 different plant species. In the 1950s, the then director Gustaf gate Nitzelius let the " Japan - valley " with imported plants from East Asia to set up. In other areas, perennial plants, leek plants and rhododendrons are presented.

About 4,000 different species can not be cultivated in the open field, located in the greenhouse. This also Sweden's largest orchid collection with about 1500 species.

Building

• The administration building was designed by architect Arvid Bjerke Mattsson. It was opened in 1926 and 1936 it received a grand piano for the herbarium.
• The yellow villa of the original manor house Stora Änggården of 1812 is above the greenhouse. It was renovated in 1912 by the architect Sigfrid Ericson and now serves as staff accommodation.
• The Wooden Boat 's house or Blue House ( Blå huset ) from 1794, originally in the port area of the city, approximately at the location of America Terminals ( Amerikaskjulet ). After disassembly of 1917, the re-establishment near the bamboo garden in the Botanical Garden. Again, staff apartments furnished.
• The gazebo in the herb garden was constructed in the late 18th century for its own garden of the city architect Bernhard Carlsberg.
• The only building in the garden with access to the University of Gothenburg is the botanical institution. It came to 1971 after plans by the architect Stig Hansson and Walter Kiesling.