Botanischer Garten Solingen
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The Botanischer Garten Solingen is a 6-hectare (15-acre) botanical garden located at Vogelsang 2a, Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is open daily without charge.
The garden dates to 1952 when the city opened its first greenhouse on a 4-hectare site, with the garden itself opening in 1963. In 1965 the tropical house was built (143 m2, 8 meters in height), and in 1994-1995 the greenhouses were extended to 826 m2 by adding a cactus house and bromeliad house. In 2001 the garden was extended to over 6 hectares, and has gradually been handed off from city management to a nonprofit organization.
Today the garden's major sections are as follows:
- Alpinum (870 m2 or 9,400 sq ft) - alpine garden including Alyssum, Arabis, Aster, Aubrieta, Campanula, Cyclamen, Delphinium, Gentiana, Geranium, Primula, Ranunculus gramineus, Saxifraga, Sedum, Sempervivum, etc.
- Mediterranean garden (40 m2 or 430 sq ft) - plants from Southern Europe and Central America including fig, olive, and laurel trees, lavender, oregano, rosemary, sage, and thyme, as well as Cerastium and Potentilla.
- Greenhouses (826 m2 or 8,890 sq ft) - tropical house (with palm trees, sugar cane, wild rice, coca, cinnamon, and a large aquarium); orchids from Nicaragua and Vietnam; a cactus house containing about 250 species; and bromeliad house with about 220 species of bromeliad, as well as banana tree, vanilla, carnivorous plants, and coffee.
- Cottage garden (642 m2 or 6,910 sq ft) - a lawn with three maples and garden area (226 m2) patterned on descriptions of the Garden of Eden with four streams, containing flowers such as daffodil, foxglove, iris, lily of the valley, lupine, marigold, nasturtium, peony, phlox, yarrow, etc.
- Biblical Garden (40 m2 or 430 sq ft) - eight beds, each a different geometric form, containing plants mentioned in the Bible, including barley, cistus, olive, pomegranate, wheat, etc.
- Flora Frey garden (139 m2 or 1,500 sq ft) - garden donated by the Flora Frey company, with bulbs including Dahlia as well as Chionodoxa, Crocus, Eranthis, Erythronium, Fritillaria meleagris, Galanthus, Leucojum, Muscari, Narcissus, Puschkinia, Scilla, Tulipa, etc.
- Pergola (60 m or 200 ft) - wild grapes, ivy, climbing hydrangea, and trumpet flower.
- Perennials garden (1,657 m2 or 17,840 sq ft) - aster, daisy, larkspur, peony, etc.
- Rose Garden (160 m2 or 1,700 sq ft) - about 100 rose varieties.
- Medicinal garden (60 m2 or 650 sq ft) - about 40 medicinal plants known from antiquity to the Middle Ages including Malva sylvestris, marigold, peppermint, rosemary, etc.
- Herb Garden (60 m2 or 650 sq ft) - herbs such as chives, mint, parsley, etc.
- Wild Bee Trail - an old orchard in which bees have a natural habitat.
- Fern walls - brick walls with Gymnocarpium robertianum.
- Heather garden (3,035 m2 or 32,670 sq ft) - Calluna and Erica, as well as birch, yew, Forsythia, Ilex, Pieris, Rhododendron, Skimmia, etc.
- Pond area ([2,139 m2 or 23,020 sq ft)] of which about [500 m2 or 5,400 sq ft] is water) - Japanese cherry trees, with carp, goldfish, roach, three-spined stickleback, etc.
- Iris Garden (1,169 m2 or 12,580 sq ft) - iris and daylily varieties.
- Reading room (170 m2 or 1,800 sq ft)
- Primelgarten (2,010 m2 or 21,600 sq ft)
- Conifers - A collection of conifers including Abies and Picea specimens, as well as Araucaria, Chamaecyparis, Cryptomeria, Larix pendula, and Metasequoia.
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