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Botanical Gardens, Nelson

Besides cricket, the ground also saw one of the first rugby matches to be played in New Zealand between Nelson College and a group of local players.


1859 in Denmark

April 15 – An act provides for the Royal Danish Navy as well as the Botanical Gardens to leave Gammelholm which is instead to undergo urban redevelopment.

Bay View Garden And Yard Society

Some of the Society’s member events and functions include annual plant exchanges, round robins at member’s homes, monthly group dining out, and tours of local greenhouses and botanical gardens.

George Henry Kendrick Thwaites

In March 1849, on the death of George Gardner, Thwaites was appointed superintendent of the botanical gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon.

George Samuel Jenman

He was superintendent of Castleton Botanical Garden, Jamaica from 1873 to 1879, and Government Botanist and superintendent of the Botanical Gardens in British Guiana (now Guyana) from 1879 to 1902.

Heritage interpretation

Heritage interpretation may be performed at dedicated interpretation centres or at museums, historic sites, parks, art galleries, nature centres, zoos, aquaria, botanical gardens, nature reserves and a host of other heritage sites.

Tasmanian Transport Museum

The Museum also acquired a railway turntable from Brighton and a signal cabin from the Botanical Gardens railway halt.

Taylor Range

Mount Coot-tha, on which there is a lookout, botanical gardens, a planetarium and television towers, is the highest peak of the Taylor Range at 287 m.


see also

Beaumont Botanical Gardens

The Beaumont Botanical Gardens (23.5 acres), also known as the Tyrrell Park Botanical Gardens, are botanical gardens and a conservatory located in Tyrrell Park at 6088 Babe Zaharias Drive, Beaumont, Texas, USA.

Boerner Botanical Gardens

Boerner Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden which is located on the grounds of Whitnall Park in the village of Hales Corners, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.

Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens

The Buffalo and Erie County Botanical Gardens are botanical gardens located at 2655 South Park Avenue, Buffalo, New York, USA in South Park.

Calcutta Rowing Club

After the cyclone a temporary thatched roof boat house was built in 1861, on the banks of the Hooghly near Chand pal Ghat, the Regatta course was 1 mile from Fort Point to Shalimar or from Shalimar to Botanical Gardens.

Ed Madden

He has been writer in residence at the Riverbanks Botanical Gardens in Columbia, South Carolina, and he also worked as writer in residence at Fort Moultrie in Charleston, South Carolina, as part of the state's African-American Heritage Corridor project.

Edward Angelo Goodall

Moritz Richard Schomburgk was commissioned by the Prussian government to map British Guiana's boundaries, accompanied by his brother Robert, who was to collect natural history specimens for the Royal Museum and the Botanical Gardens in Berlin.

Foxfire Botanical Gardens

The Foxfire Botanical Gardens (or Foxfire Gardens) were 14 acres of botanical gardens located on the outskirts of Marshfield, Wisconsin, USA.

Frances Margaret Leighton

Frances Leighton's father, James Leighton FRHS (19 January 1855 Kincardine O'Neil - 22 January 1930 King William's Town) was a gardener at Kew 1878-1880, 1881-1887 curator of the Botanical Gardens in King William's Town, at the same time developing his own nursery, 1888-1922 he was a town councillor, 1910-11 he was mayor of King William's Town.

Francis Lynde Stetson

He established an estate in Ringwood, New Jersey from farm in the Ramapo Mountains that would become the New Jersey State Botanical Gardens in Ringwood State Park.

Franz von Paula Schrank

Schrank was the first director of the botanical gardens in Munich from 1809 to 1832.

Gamle Oslo

The district has several landmarks and large parks, including the Edvard Munch Museum, the Botanical Gardens and a medieval park.

George Samuel Jenman

In 1879 Jenman moved to British Guiana where he was appointed as Government Botanist and Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens.

Hallea rubrostipulata

Together with representatives for UGANEB, the villagers also visited Tooro Botanical Gardens in Fort Portal and the Namanve Tree Seed Centre in Kampala, which gave them valuable inspiration and knowledge.

Henshaws Society for Blind People

In September 1834 the Board of Management of Henshaw’s Blind Asylum and Deaf and Dumb schools, jointly purchased a plot of land adjoining the botanical gardens at Old Trafford Manchester.

Ignacio Mariano Martinez de Galinsoga

Plants of the genus Galinsoga arrived in Europe from the Americas and by 1776 were found in Kew Gardens and in 1794 in the Botanical Gardens of Paris and Madrid.

Ignatz Anton Pilát

After studying botany at the University of Vienna, he obtained a position at the Imperial Botanical Gardens of the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, where he acquired technical skills and participated in a botanical survey of the site.

Józef Warszewicz

In 1844, upon recommendation of Alexander von Humboldt, he was sent by Messrs. Van Houtte, a horticulturalist of Ghent, to join a Belgian colony in Guatemala, where he soon became an independent collector and wholesale supplier of plants to European horticulturalists and botanical gardens.

Lae War Cemetery

The Lae War Cemetery, established in 1944, is located adjacent to the Botanical Gardens in the centre of the city of Lae, the capital of Morobe Province, in Papua New Guinea.

Lankester Botanical Garden

The Lankester Botanical Gardens are a set of gardens outside of Cartago, Costa Rica.

Madagascan Pochard

The single male then encountered was captured and kept in the Antananarivo Botanical Gardens until its death one year later.

Mehan Garden

It was one of a number of botanical gardens established in Asia by European colonial powers (for example, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Bogor Botanical Gardens, 1817).

Mortola Inferiore

It is home to the Giardini Botanici Hanbury, or Hanbury botanical gardens, created in the 19th century by Sir Thomas Hanbury.

Nepenthes truncata

On September 29, 2006, at the Botanical Gardens in Lyon, France, a Nepenthes truncata was photographed containing the decomposing corpse of a mouse.

Prague 2

Important sights:Charles Square- the biggest square in Prague and also among the biggest squares in Europe - with the New City Hall / Gothic town hall, Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Botanical Gardens and several Charles University buildingsin Albertov, as well as the Baroque Villa America.

Quercus canariensis

It resides within the Kyneton Botanical Gardens in the town of Kyneton in the Australian state of Victoria.

Rene Sylva

In 1976, Sylva became the caretaker of the Maui Zoological and Botanical Gardens in Kahului, Hawaii, which later became known as the Maui Nui Botanical Gardens.

Revista de Biologia

Until 1974, Revista de Biologia was jointly edited by the Botanical Gardens of Rio de Janeiro, Lisbon, Dundo and Lourenço Marques.

Roland Trimen

Trimen was born the son of Richard and Mary Ann Esther Trimen and was the elder brother of Henry Trimen, botanist and director of the botanical gardens at Peradeniya, Ceylon.

Ronciglione

A villa with extensive botanical gardens, built by Ulisse Igliori for his wife Lina in 1928 and currently owned and operated as a luxury Bed and Breakfast by their daughter Paola Igliori.

Sabin Berthelot

He first visited the Canary Islands in 1820, where he taught at a school in Tenerife and managed the botanical gardens at Orotava for the Marquis of Villanueva del Prato.

Soufrière Quarter

It boasts several attractions including a "drive-in" volcano, the Diamond Botanical Gardens with waterfall (briefly featured in the Superman II movie) and historic mineral baths, plus the nearby beaches of Anse Chastanet to the north and Malgretout to the south.

South Coast Botanic Garden

A remake of the "Crying Indian" public service ad by Keep America Beautiful, featuring Iron Eyes Cody, was filmed at South Coast Botanical Gardens.

Triphyophyllum

peltatum is currently cultivated in only three botanical gardens: Abidjan, Bonn, and Würzburg.

Ulmus 'Australis'

Henry also mentions specimens growing in botanical gardens at Le Mans and Bordeaux, and others growing as far south as Spizza (now Sutomore) in Dalmatia (Montenegro).

Vachellia farnesiana

The taxon name farnesiana is specially named after Odoardo Farnese (1573–1626) of the notable Italian Farnese family which, after 1550, under the patronage of cardinal Alessandro Farnese, maintained some of the first private European botanical gardens in Rome, in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Villa Floridiana

The director of the Botanical Gardens, Friedrich Dehnhardt, planted oaks, pines, palms, cypresses and a large selection of flowers in the gardens.