As a student of plant science, I have always an urge to visit some botanical gardens and resource centers related with plant science. I am doing some research work at WSL, (12 km far from Zurich) and in the weekend my friend Therese invited me and managed a trip to visit Zurich University Botanical Garden. While we left from Zurich the weather was cold and snowing.
I came to know that formerly this botanical garden was a private garden and now maintained as a university botanical garden since 1976. There are no systematic beds like in our garden in Nepal (Botanical Garden, Godavary, Kathmandu) but most of the plants cultivated are wild species inside and outside the green houses. Here, in this note I am sharing few interested pictures and information and my memories, hope will be interesting to you all my blog readers.
Open Hours_ Zurich University Botanical Garden
Bubbles like Tropical Green Houses
Beautiful Aquarium
Beautiful Flower _ Normally I have seen only in white color in Nepal
Chamaedora tapejiote
Dendrobium spectablle _ Beautiful Orchid with strange ornamentation
Heteropteris chrysophylla - Beautifula and large sized orchid inside green house
Massonia pustulata
Musella lasiocarpa
Porlieria hygrometra - it is brought from Peru
Rafflesia _ Bigger flower of the plants - from South Africa
Hanging orchid: Stanhopea graveolens
Tillandsia cyanea
Myself with the joy inside the Botanical Garden ( Dec 12, 2009 Saturday)
"Myself with Therese Keel Kunz _ On the way to Botanical Garden
Thank you Dear Therese for your special arrangement and precious time"
very nice Shiva jee
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