Botanical garden 'Alpinum Juliana'
The botanical garden 'Alpinum Juliana' (Slovenian: Botanični vrt Alpinum Juliana) is located north of Trenta - about 45 meters above the left bank of the Isonzo at 800 meters above sea level on a steep slope of Mount Kukla - about eight kilometers west of Triglav . The name Alpinum Juliana of the garden refers to its location at the foot of the Julian Alps directly on the Isonzo riverside road, which leads through the Triglav National Park up to the Werschetz Pass.
The botanical garden was founded in 1926 by the Trieste entrepreneur Albert Bois de Chesne (1871–1953). His advisor at the time was the alpinist Julius Kugy . From 1949 the botanist Angela Piskernik took care of the garden. Well-known gardeners were Ančka Kavs (born December 28, 1907 in Vrsnik) and Anton Tožbar (born May 29, 1905 in Trenta; † February 3, 1993 ibid). The approximately 800 different plants in the garden are from the Julian Alps, from Friuli , the Karawanken from Karst areas, the foothills and also from the Western Alps , Pyrenees , Apenninen , the Atlas and the Caucasus . The relatively low altitude of the high mountain garden has an unfavorable effect on the “health” of some of the glacier flowers that live in it.
Since 1981 the garden has been a natural monument of the Triglav National Park.
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- Nada Prapotnik: “Juliana” Alpine Botanical Garden in Trenta. With photos by Ciril Mlinar. Translated from Slovenian by Doris Debenjak . Published by Naturkundemuseum Ljubljana . Reprint in 2008 of the edition in 2000, ISBN 978-961-90008-9-2 . 126 pages
- Information board in the garden
Web links
- In English: Juliana
Coordinates: 46 ° 23 ′ 56.5 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 43.8" E