Ökologisch-Botanischer Garten
The other (Sun)day, I stumbled across the weekly public opening hours of our university's "Ökologisch-Botanischer Garten" or horto-eco-botanical garden. It stunned me to find a completely new and first-grade attraction in BT after that many years.
What's more, the last times my family came over for a visit, I was scratching my head to find some appropriate tourist attraction somewhere in this region, and had to search further and further afield... and now it turned out there is a great place right next door. Literally next door: The garden is right behind the new Computing Science building on campus. I have been passing it by on the way to and from campus every day, as it's occupying at least half of the area encircled by the Southern Bayreuth tangent road. It's a huge complex made up of several greenhouses containing small-scale climate zone representations and a large outdoor area combining the typical botanical features from several continents into an afternoon's walk.
Although it might be not as exceptional in reality, the only other place I have seen something similar before was the Muttart Conservatory in Edmonton, Canada, some years ago.
Australian Outback
Rain Forest
More Rain Forest
Canary Islands Cloud Forest
Some, uh, mixed stuff in a dry place
Outdoors - A very true reconstruction of a Canadian Rocky Mountains Forest
Outdoors - A Gingko tree in Bayreuth
Outdoors - Poppy flowers, in what was called a "Pest Plants Field"
Outdoors - Wheat
The Greenhouses
What's more, the last times my family came over for a visit, I was scratching my head to find some appropriate tourist attraction somewhere in this region, and had to search further and further afield... and now it turned out there is a great place right next door. Literally next door: The garden is right behind the new Computing Science building on campus. I have been passing it by on the way to and from campus every day, as it's occupying at least half of the area encircled by the Southern Bayreuth tangent road. It's a huge complex made up of several greenhouses containing small-scale climate zone representations and a large outdoor area combining the typical botanical features from several continents into an afternoon's walk.
Although it might be not as exceptional in reality, the only other place I have seen something similar before was the Muttart Conservatory in Edmonton, Canada, some years ago.
Australian Outback
Rain Forest
More Rain Forest
Canary Islands Cloud Forest
Some, uh, mixed stuff in a dry place
Outdoors - A very true reconstruction of a Canadian Rocky Mountains Forest
Outdoors - A Gingko tree in Bayreuth
Outdoors - Poppy flowers, in what was called a "Pest Plants Field"
Outdoors - Wheat
The Greenhouses
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Sunday, June 08, 2008
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