Sighting garden
As Sichtungsgarten is known in the horticultural gardens that were established to plant varieties under field conditions over several years by Scoring was to compare and evaluate and select the most appropriate for a defined purpose of it. This process is called sighting .
On the one hand, inspection gardens are being set up by plant breeding companies to enable buyers of large-scale sales customers to compare cultivars of certain types of plants and to present new breeds to them. Large viewing gardens of this kind are found mainly in the Netherlands . Daffodils , tulips and hyacinths are predominantly grown there. The gardens are mostly undemanding in terms of design and are designed solely to enable the varieties to be compared. These viewing gardens are mostly supported by large commercial nurseries. Unlike z. For example, the Keukenhof show garden in the Netherlands, which attracts a large number of tourists in spring when the tulips are in bloom, these viewing gardens are often not geared towards bus tourism. This can already be seen from the number of varieties on display. More than 1,000 different narcissus hybrids are on display in individual viewing gardens, while the Keukenhof only shows a little more than 100 different types of narcissus, but these are in large numbers.
But there are also viewing gardens of other providers (e.g. universities, horticultural teaching and research institutes and other state institutions), which are at least partially public show gardens and teaching gardens, such as B. the exhibition and viewing garden Hermannshof and the viewing garden Weihenstephan . In the latter two, not only varieties of one plant genus are tested with one another, but also the sustainable suitability of plants in combination with other genus for gardens and green spaces.
Viewing gardens are located in different geographical regions in order to be able to compare and select the varieties with regard to their suitability for the respective site conditions (frost hardness, rain resistance, heat resistance, soil requirements, etc.).
The results of the screening are regularly published in tabular form in specialist publications.