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About The Botanical Garden

  The Botanical Garden Dusseldorf is located in the south of Dusseldorf on the Rhine Himmelgeister arc. It belongs to the Heinrich-Heine-University Dusseldorf and to the Institute of Botany. It is an amazing garden also known as the Botanischer Garten der Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf or some people may call it the Botanischer Garten der Universität Düsseldorf. It was founded in 1974 and now is a home to 6,000 species. Mainly plants are shown in temperate climates. Even if it’s not so old this garden is visited by a great number of visitors who are attracted by its incredible flora, its big variety of trees, flowers and vegetation in general. Because the Botanical Garden is operated by the Dusseldorf Heinrich-Heine University, it is almost mainly used to study, but is also the country's inhabitants. This garden sometimes can hold various events such as tours and lectures.

The main information

  The garden was established in 1974 and currently contains about 6000 species, with a focus on plants of temperate climates. The first buildings in the Botanical Garden were created 1974th. The garden contains many buildings that hold a great number of different species of plants and flowers. The main building is The Dome with 1,000 square meters plant area which was opened in 1976th. The central dome is a cold greenhouse, its building in winter has a temperature of 10-12 ° C and contains plants from areas with warm, dry summers and rainy winters. These are plants that represents the Mediterranean and the Canary Islands, but on the other hand, plants from Australia, New Zealand, Asia, South Africa, Chile and California

  From 1979, the entire garden was opened to visitors. In the center of the garden there is a 18 m high dome that covers seven hectares and contains about 400 plant species from nearly every continent. One of the main attractions of this garden is the 3.5-acre wildflower meadow, as shown on the edges of areas with different themes like nature, plants and endangered plants. In addition to this wildflower meadow, there are other areas like the pharmacy garden installed and mounted several hives.

  On 10 October 2004, in the Botanical Garden was inaugurated the Orangerie. It serves mainly the overwintering of large, valuable container plants from Mediterranean climate regions, such as Myrtle, conifer plants of the southern hemisphere and Pyrophyten from Australia and South Africa. It has a floor area of 300 square meters and is 13 meters high. Besides the Orangerie, in the garden was opened in 2008 the South Africa House.  South Africa House is located next to the Orangery, and has only 330 m. It is an unbelievable area where you can enter into the diversity of the South African steppe vegetation. It is a possible life-like replica of the soil conditions and some landscape details to convey the impression of a realistic plant community.

The main features

  The Botanical Garden is a very large and extensive area where you can find many beautiful flowers and plants. Here also you can see some interesting animals and you can make unbelievable beautiful pictures. In the summer the most beautiful are the dragonflies on the pond Unterwegs. On the trees around the pound there is a really nice big spider which is waiting to be photographed. If you like to see the wildlife, there are many frogs and ducks which complete the whole. The park is a truly great man made and it should take you at least half a day to see everything and enjoy the surrounding beauty. I’m sure you will be amazed by all the different types of exotic plants and unbelievable trees. And you should know that the access to the botanical garden and its main routes are also accessible to the disabled persons.

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