Travelog post for: napoleon

Hi Guido,
today we went to the neighbour city Solingen to visit the greenhouses in the Botanical Garden. These are usually closed during winter, but today they were open and guided tours were offered.



There are several greenhouses, one of them with desert plants, one with bromeliad plants, a tropical garden and orchids.

First we had a short look at the tropical garden.





Next stop was the desert

These golden barrel cacti, also called Mother-In-Law's-cushion, are well known.

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This is a money tree, common as a houseplant worldwide.



An orchid ...



Next we went to the greenhouse showing bromelia, originally growing from Middle America down to South America.



Than I found a plant called Elephant's Foot.



My feet are looking much better than this plant!





This is heaven for an elephant



Every elephant loves banana!



Once m ore we went to the tropical garden.





Of course we also took a short walk in the Botanical Garden itself. You can find a lot of funny sculptures here, like this reading raven.





We found some spring flowers, like snowdrops ...



and these yellow flowers, called "Winterling" in German.



There is a giant butterfly sitting on the lawn, made of metal with glass mosaic.







IN the meantime it started raining, so we hurried back to the car to get home.

Bye
napoleon