The Ladie’s Flower Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants, Jane Loudon, London 1841

Jane Loudon, The Ladie’s Flower Garden of Ornamental Bulbous Plants, London 1841, as seen at the exhibition Ars Botanica, Miramare, Italy, photo Tamara Jare

Salvia under Snow

Tamara Jate garden photography Salvia under Snow

Glasshouse -Botanical garden Rome

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Visitors

It is a pleasure to see so many visitors here in My Botanical Garden! Table is set, weather is perfect , friends are gathering together. Let all the rumors stay just a buzz from a white bush………

Botanical garden growing history

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” 

Robert Louis Stevenson

The first botanical garden in Carniola was established in 1781. Its founder,Karl von Zois , an amateur botanist, set it in park of his family estate, Brdo Castle. With help of his brother, Sigmund Zois Freiherr von Edelstein, prominent figure in  Enlightenment Era in the Slovene Lands, he planted not only indigenous plants, but many foreign as well. Plants were collected from Carniola, there was set first alpinum, and others bought from abroad. In 1782 first hyacinths arrived in the garden. Captain Cook sent some plants from his Tahiti expedition to the owner of the garden, yet they arrived in poor condition as Karl sadly wrote in his garden diary

Lack of money and love for botany, as difficult growing conditions for alpinum, all together resulted in Brdo botanical garden fading into castle park after Karl Zois death.

The property has changed  prominent owners in the next centuries and many interesting guests walked down the garden paths. I wonder how many of them knew about little black Karl Zois garden diary where everything planted was documented. Yet as the owners of the property and garden have changed,as important guests have returned back home, the seeds from that garden diary remain to grow as many  botanical gardens across the country.The Brdo park stays as gorgeous witness of the times when hyacinth bloomed for the very first time here around.

 

 

 

Autumn morning in botanical garden

Today the early morning in the garden was cold and foggy , but still the leaves were bright yellow.