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The Botanischer Garten Solingen is a 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 () - alpine garden including Alyssum, Arabis, Aster, Aubrieta, Campanula, Cyclamen, Delphinium, Gentiana, Geranium, Primula, ''Ranunculus gramineus'', Saxifraga, Sedum, Sempervivum, etc. * Mediterranean garden () - 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 () - 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 () - 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 () - eight beds, each a different geometric form, containing plants mentioned in the Bible, including barley, cistus, olive, pomegranate, wheat, etc. * Flora Frey garden () - 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 () - wild grapes, ivy, climbing hydrangea, and trumpet flower. * Perennials garden () - aster, daisy, larkspur, peony, etc. * Rose Garden () - about 100 rose varieties. * Medicinal garden () - about 40 medicinal plants known from antiquity to the Middle Ages including ''Malva sylvestris'', marigold, peppermint, rosemary, etc. * Herb Garden () - 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 () - Calluna and Erica, as well as birch, yew, Forsythia, Ilex, Pieris, Rhododendron, Skimmia, etc. * Pond area (() of which about [] is water) - Japanese cherry trees, with carp, goldfish, roach, three-spined stickleback, etc. * Iris Garden () - iris and daylily varieties. * Reading room () * Primelgarten () * Conifers - A collection of conifers including Abies and Picea specimens, as well as ''Araucaria'', ''Chamaecyparis'', ''Cryptomeria'', ''Larix pendula'', and ''Metasequoia''. ==See also== * List of botanical gardens in Germany 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Botanischer Garten Solingen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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