Hanbury Botanical Garden

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The Hanbury Botanical Garden (Italian Giardini Botanici Hanbury ) is an 18 hectare botanical garden in Italy . It is located on Capo Mortola near Mortola Inferiore, Ventimiglia municipality , Imperia province , in the Liguria region .

history

Villa Hanbury, formerly Villa Orengo

In 1867 Thomas Hanbury acquired 18 hectares of land and the Orengo villa on Cape Mortola, which is part of the Ventimiglia municipality . Due to the protected climatic location, the slope was overgrown with olive groves, grapevines and maquis . Thomas Hanbury decided to create a botanical garden here with the support of his brother Daniel Hanbury (1825–1875) and later the German gardener Ludwig Winter . From 1894 to 1897 Kurt Dinter was curator of the Botanical Garden.

As early as 1883 the index seminum contained around 600 different types of seeds. The third catalog, published in 1912, contained 5800 species. Thomas Hanbury died in 1907 and left his son Cecil to run the garden. After the First World War, Lady Dorothy, Cecil Hanbury's wife, devoted herself to rebuilding the garden. In 1960 Lady Dorothy sold the garden to the Italian state. The Institute for Ligurian Studies tried to restore it, but the requirements far exceeded the financial resources of the institute, so that in 1987 the garden was taken over by the University of Genoa .

garden

Garden view

The signposted path leads through the zone of the "Four Seasons" ( Quattro Stagioni ), the aloe zone, the zone of the cyclamen , through the Japanese garden (Campana giapponese) , further through the "Pergola", past the dragon fountain (Fontana del Drago), the garden of smells ( Giardino dei profumi ) to the "Mausoleo Moresco", where the ashes of Sir Thomas Hanbury and his wife Lady Katherine Pease were buried. A little further down the slope you cross the old Roman road Via Julia Augusta and, after crossing the old olive grove (Viale degli Olivi) and the sage garden , you finally reach the coast.

The more arduous way up leads through the pine grove , past South African acacias , to "Pozzo Veneto". Halfway up the slope you cross the Australian forest (Foresta Australiana) with eucalyptus plants from Queensland and Western Australia until you reach the south terrace, where you can visit the rose collection in the "Giardinetti". You still have to cross the palm grove, the "Viale delle Cycas " and the banana forest until you finally see the Peruvian pepper tree near the exit.

On June 1, 2006, the garden was included in the Italian list of proposals for UNESCO World Heritage .

  • Cacti
  • pavilion
  • Funerary monument of the Hanbury

Historical catalogs and descriptions

Catalogs
  • Gustav Cronemeyer: Systematic catalog of plants growing in the open air in the garden of Thomas Hanbury FLS: Palazzo Orengo, La Mortola, near Ventimiglia, Italy . GA König, Erfurt 1889.
  • Kurt Dinter : Alphabetical catalog of plants growing in the open air in the garden of Thomas Hanbury FLS: Palazzo Orengo, La Mortola, near Ventimiglia, Italy . Waser Brothers, Genoa 1897.
  • Alwin Berger : Hortus mortolensis: Enumeratio plantarum in Horto Mortolensi cultarum . London 1912 (online) .
Descriptions
  • Friedrich A. Flückiger: La Mortola. A short description of the garden of Thomas Hanbury, Esq. Translated from the German by Helen P. Sharpe, 1885, (online) .
  • George Edward Comerford Case: Riviera nature notes, a popular account of the more striking plants and animals of the Riviera and the Maritime Alps . 2nd edition, Bernard Quaritch, London 1903, (online) .

Web links

Commons : Hanbury Botanical Garden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The journeys of Moritz Kurt Dinter between 1897 and 1910 in Namibia. In: The World of Succulents, No. 16, Zurich, October 2011
  2. ^ Hanbury botanical gardens. UNESCO World Heritage Convention, accessed September 12, 2018 .

Coordinates: 43 ° 46 ′ 57.7 ″  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 20.1 ″  E