Everything about Botanical Gardens totally explained
Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of
plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes.
Botanists and
horticulturalists tend the
flora and maintain the garden's library and
herbarium of dried and documented plant material. Botanical gardens may also serve to entertain and educate the public, upon whom many depend for funding. However, not all botanical gardens are open to the public: for example the
Chelsea Physic Garden. According to the
Botanic Gardens Conservation International, "Botanic gardens are institutions holding documented collections of living plants for the purposes of scientific research, conservation, display and education."
Research
From the late
18th century onward,
European botanical gardens began sending plant-collecting expeditions to various parts of the world and publishing their findings. Voyages of exploration routinely included botanists for this purpose. Subsequent scientific work studied how these exotic plants might be adapted to grow in the garden's locale, how to
classify them, and how to
propagate rare or
endangered species. The
Royal Botanic Gardens in
Kew, near
London, has continuously published journals and more recently catalogues and databases since this time.
Educational work
Educational projects at botanical gardens range from introductions to plants that thrive in different environments to practical advice for the home gardener. Many have plant shops, selling flower, herb, and vegetable seedlings suitable for transplantation. Some gardens such as the
UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research and the
Chicago Botanic Garden have plant breeding programs and introduce new plants to the
horticultural trade.
Image:US botanic garden 3.jpg|Inside the United States Botanic Garden
Image:Kew_Palm_House.JPG|Inside Kew Gardens Palm House
Image:Curitiba - 2.jpg|The Botanical Garden of Curitiba, Southern Brazil
Image:Aswan, Kitchener's Island, palm alley, Egypt, Oct 2004.jpg|A botanical garden of Kitchener's Island, Aswan
Image:UBC Botanical Garden water.jpg|University of British Columbia Botanical Garden
Image:Jardim Botânico de Coimbra2.jpg|Inside the Botanical Garden of the University of Coimbra, Portugal
History
The first modern botanical gardens were founded in Northern
Italy in connection with universities:
Other European towns and universities then followed suit:
Valencia, Spain (1567)
Leiden, Netherlands (1590)
Montpellier, France (1593)
Heidelberg, Germany (1597)
Tübingen, Germany by Leonhart Fuchs
Copenhagen, Denmark (1600)
Oxford, England (1621)
Uppsala, Sweden (1655)
Hannover, Germany (1666)
Egypt has several botanical gardens. One them, the Orman Garden in Giza, is over 130 years old.
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