Usedom Botanical Gardens, Mellenthin

Usedom Botanical Garden Mellenthin is a private collection of more than 1000 different perennials on the Baltic island of Usedom.

General

The Botanical Garden is due to a purely private initiative. Therefore, the relaxation bidding component of a botanical garden of the Scientific is presented in it, nevertheless, done a contribution to environmental education through the plant label in the languages ​​Latin, German and Polish. In it, more than 50,000 plants ( excluding the spring-flowering bulbs ) planted on an area of ​​60,000 square meters since the beginning of plantations in October 2006. The collection of plants in this botanical garden is not as is common, arranged according to their origin, but rather according to its scheme. The locations of individual plants were determined by the natural conditions of the rescheduled arable land and thus embedded in the locality. For the arrangement and distribution in addition a total of 750 tons of natural stones or boulders were placed in Usedom Botanical Garden Mellenthin.

Arrangement of the garden

Usedom Botanical Garden consists of 14 individual gardens. Nearly all the individual gardens are bordered with hedges, so that they are only individually visible and therefore only the " individual garden experience " is triggered in the viewer upon entering the respective subject area.

The Green Garden

Mainly is a collection of conifers and some evergreen ground cover in it. Also located here about 8000 Tulips ( Tulipa) [IV - V], azaleas (Rhododendron ) [V ], ground cover roses ( Rosa ) [VI - X] and bell heather ( Erica tetralix ) [ IX - XI ]. Is delimited by that individual garden ( Ligustrum vulgare ) by a hedge of privet [VI - VII].

The Early flower garden

Here you will find mainly perennials, which have their flowers phases in late spring and early summer. Furthermore, here planted chestnut trees, which are to be developed as a natural roof over the interior of this garden. To the south of this garden is by a hedge of Astilbe ( Spiraea vanhouttei ) - deferred and northward by a flowering hedgerow [V VI ]. In addition, this garden blooms with innumerable Hyacinth ( Hyacinthus ) [III - IV].

The Rose Garden

The rose garden features more than 100 different roses (Rosa), which are planted with ground cover plants and ground cover roses. The individual rosaries are delimited with box (Buxus sempervirens), the rose garden is a hedge maple (Acer campestre ) fenced.

The Late flower garden

Here you can find, in contrast to early flower garden mainly, but not only perennials, which have their flowers phases during late summer and autumn. Additionally bloom here countless snowdrops (Galanthus ) [II - IV], daffodils ( Leucojum vernum ) [III - IV] and crocuses (Crocus ) [II - IV].

The garden on a slope

Three-span stone terraces are the core element of this flower garden. This garden is characterized by a balanced weighting of " early" and "late" flowering perennials. More than 150 clematis (Clematis ) [VI - IX ] and more than 250 carpet and upholstery Phlox (Phlox subulata ) [V - VI ] beranken the stone terraces from above and below. In addition, we find here an eclectic mix of spring flowering plants this garden. The garden on a slope is delineated by Green Hedges Barberry (Berberis thunbergii ) [V].

The lawn

This subject area is characterized by its large pond and watercourse system to its name by seating and picnic opportunities on an equitable and directly adjacent to the area of ​​forest. The lawn is of wild lilac (Syringa vulgaris) [V ], hornbeam (Carpinus betulus ) and copper beech (Fagus sylvatica purpurea) enclosed.

The mixed forest

The naturally grown area of ​​forest is accessible and is not altered in its authenticity. The semicircular edge of the forest donates to a lot of shade and also home to some native birds.

The kitchen garden

The kitchen garden is home to the most common there domestic fruit trees and fruit bushes, such as Apple (Malus ), pear (Pyrus ), cherry (Prunus cerasus), peach (Prunus persica ), etc.. Particularly worth seeing the heyday in spring in this garden area. Even a small vineyard with a variety of grapevines ( Vitis ) [V - VI ] can be seen here. Enclosed is the kitchen garden with Red Honeysuckle ( Lonicera xylosteum ) [V - VI ], reminiscent of the wild hops ( Humulus lupulus) [VI - IX ] and a mixed bird hedge.

The heather garden

As the name suggests, can be found there both a wide variety of heath types of summer heather ( Calluna vulgaris) [VIII - IX ] to winter heath (Erica carnea) [III - VI ] and Irish -leaved heath ( Daboecia cantabrica ) [VIII - X]. This garden still hosts more than 7,000 tulips ( Tulipa) in all colors. To the north bordering a hedge of sea buckthorn ( Hippophae rhamnoides ) [IV - V] and south of this section of Usedom Botanical Garden Mellenthin from a hedge of European yew (Taxus baccata).

The herb garden

This garden section is our smallest garden area with distance and contains about 20 different herbs.

The rhododendron

In May each year, blooms the Alpenrose (Rhododendron ). The 2007 planted Rhododendrenpflanzen are far from your final height of 2 - 5 m are included. To increase the heyday of this single garden the Rhododendrenbeete are partially planted with summer-flowering ground cover, just as with hydrangea ( Hydrangea ) [VII - IX ] and Garteneibisch (Hibiscus ) [VI - IX ].

The ornamental shrubs garden

To minimize the use of chemical garden care products, has been set mainly in pest control on the natural help of the birds. This and the different shape and color design of ornamental shrubs were also such motivation to invest in the garden.

The Teiche-/Wasserpflanzengarten

The second smallest garden area of the ponds and aquatic plants garden. He shows both water and shore plants. From here leads a separate way of the landscaped walk- Wall, which allows a view from an elevated perspective on Usedom Botanical Garden Mellenthin. This Wall ends in the rock garden.

The Rock Garden

Last single garden is characterized by the large number of field stones, which differ in shape, size and color of each other. Of course, this also suitable plants were selected and used. The rock garden of the tour ends.