Botanical Garden Teplice
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Botanical Garden in Teplice, situated in the southern district Shanov, was founded in the late XIX century. The founder of the garden, according to local legend, is a rich Count Clary-Aldringen. Already in 1904 a small botanical garden, which at that time was called the word «Stadtgärtnerei», which translated means "City Gardener's economy", became a magnificent park where grow plants brought from all over the world. The local botanical garden for a long time was the pride of the city, although it was used for the cultivation of flowers, which are then sold to travelers. During the XX century in local greenhouses wintered palms, cacti and other heat-loving plants. They are usually sold in private greenhouses or other botanical gardens of the country.

At the beginning of the XXI century it was held reconstruction of the park area, which resulted in a botanical garden received a second life. Now it covers an area of ​​2400 square meters. m. Most of the garden is a greenhouse, but there are comfortable beds in the open air.

At the entrance to the premises covered Botanical Garden Teplice visitors are greeted by a statue of the god of the original Hume Kaaksa, which was brought here from Mexico. This deity protector of all living nature, so is the guardian of local greenhouses.

The first greenhouse botanical garden resembles its appearance Chinese pagoda. It manufactured the whole team of skilled wood carvers. From this hall can be reached directly in a greenhouse. The hall dedicated to the cultivation of desert plants, you can see the rare specimens of cacti and succulents, which celebrated its 50 years. They were donated to the local botanical garden cactus B. Pulk and professor of botany F. Etskoy. Here grow unusual conifers, brought from the African savannah.

The tropical greenhouse, which is the area of ​​the rain forest, shaking his collections of flora and fauna, even. Small inhabitants of the jungle here contains several terrariums. In the subtropical greenhouse planted plants that arrived to the Czech Republic from the foothills of the Andes and the Himalayas.

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