Yearly Archives: 2009
Global attention is being attracted to St. Katherine’s Protectorate (SKP) in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt for its medicinal plant diversity. The Medicinal Plant Conservation Project (MPCP) lead by Professor Mohamed El-Demerdash of the Mansoura University works with the local Bedouin community to attain sustainable conservation of the wild taxa and to improve the awareness of […]
The new found interest in botany led to a passion for gardening during the Victorian age, the era when Henry Shaw, founded the Missouri Botanical Garden 150 years ago. Shaw modeled his gardens using a parterre design to feature an array of plantings and colors.
The Chinese garden is the fruit of bonds forged between the Parks Department of the City of Shanghai and the Montreal Botanical Garden. The concept of the garden was the work of Le Weizhong, renowned architect and master landscaper and the then (during construction in 1990-1991) director of the Shanghai Institute of Landscape Design and […]
The Enid A. Haupt Garden is a pubic garden in the Smithsonian Institution complex in Washington, D.C. Covering over four acres, it is situated between the Castle and Independence Avenue and has provided a welcomed respite for Smithsonian visitors and residents of Washinton since it opened in 1987 as part of the redesigned Castle quadrangle. […]
Uppsala Botanic Garden, old part (“Baroque garden”), first constructed 350 years ago by Olof Rudbeck the elder, changed to present layout 260 years ago by Carl Hårleman, with the 210 year old neoclassic building Linneanum (with an orangery, still in continuous use, housing four Laurus nobilis trees planted by Linnaeus) in the background. The pyramids […]
