From Trollhattans, we took another hour to reach Gothenburg (pronounced as Go-ten-buh-ry). It was really cold for me. I was with a down-jacket and so wrapped up. It did not helped that it was drizzling too. It was easy to find the place - Gothenburg Botanical Garden as there were signboards. He parked his car in front of the park and paid SEK5. It was SEK1 hourly for parking rates at night. During the day, it will be SEK5 per hour. I thought there will be an entrance fee to enter the park but we did not see anyone manning the gates.
The flowers are gorgeous and huge. The landscape is beautiful. There are even labels at every single plant. Let the photos speak for themselves!
The Gothenburg Botanical Garden is located in Gothenburg, Sweden, and is one of the larger botanical gardens in Europe. The Gothenburg Botanical Garden is situated in a formerly completely rural area, where earlier a great country estate named Stora Änggården was located. The total area is 175 hectares (ca 430 acres).
The garden proper is about 40 hectares and there are 16,000 different species. The Rock Garden has received two stars in the Michelin Green Guide. Other sights worth seeing are The Rhododendron Valley, the Japanese Glade and the greenhouses with about 4,000 various plants, including some 1,500 orchids, a remarkable tufa apartment and the rare Easter Island Tree, Sophora toromiro.
The park is unique in Sweden since it is independent of the city university. Currently it is one of the larger botanical gardens in Europe, with its 175 hectares, which include a wild nature reserve in the Änggårdsbergen hills. This reserve is also the site of the Garden’s arboretum with copses of trees from many parts of the world, in scientifically ordered collections. The cultivated part of the Garden is about 40 hectares in area, of which about half consists of beds of plants. There are also extensive lawns and shrubberies. Source from Wikipedia.
We went to the top of the garden and could see the landscape of Gothenburg town. It was cold too.
That is me wrapped up like a dumpling.
We left at 10.30pm and it was beginning to darken. Time to find a place to sleep, and by that, it means he is going to start his long driving hours.
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