Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva

Coordinates: 46°13′30″N 6°08′48″E / 46.22508°N 6.14659°E / 46.22508; 6.14659
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Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the city of Geneva
Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève
Greenhouse of botanical Garden in 2019
Map
TypePublic Park
LocationGeneva, Switzerland
Coordinates46°13′30″N 6°08′48″E / 46.22508°N 6.14659°E / 46.22508; 6.14659
Area28 hectares
Opened1817
Operated byVille de Genève
StatusOpen
WaterLake Geneva
VegetationLawns, Non-native traditional gardens
Connecting transportroad, bus, train, air
LandmarksNational Herbarium
FacilitiesInformation centre, Gift shop, Toilets, Shelter, Cafe and Tea rooms
Websitewww.cjbg.ch

The Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the city of Geneva (Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève) is a museum and an institution of the City of Geneva.

Establishment and location

It was founded in 1817 in a former area of Bastions Park in 1817 by

Palais des Nations and the various associated urban redevelopments that took place. The elegant glass and iron structure is in line with constructions of this type in fashion in the second half of the 19th century. It originally comprised two adjacent but separate sections: the Winter Garden and a greenhouse, creating an asymmetrical effect. A symmetrical wing was added to the first in 1935. The greenhouses at Bastions were removed to make way for the Wall of the Reformers
.

Collections

The botanical garden includes a living collection of 10,000 species of 249 different families from around the world, and a historical herbarium of nearly 6 million botanical specimens.[1] The library of over 220,000 volumes.

The living collection is divided into several sections: an arboretum, rock gardens and banks of protected plants, medicinal and useful plants, greenhouses, horticultural plants (including a "garden of scent and touch"). The garden also incorporates a zoo dedicated to conservation and the Botanicum (a family space) near the lake.

The Index Herbariorum code assigned to the herbarium of this botanic garden is G[2] and it is used when citing housed specimens.

The botanical garden produces Candollea, (Organe du Conservatoire et du Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève). An international peer-reviewed journal that publishes original scientific papers, preferably in English but also in French.[3] Published since 1922, yearly since 1924.[4] It is named after Augustin Pyramus de Candolle founder of the garden.

National classification

The entire garden, including greenhouses, libraries and collections, and two mansions "Le Chene" and "La Console", is registered as a cultural asset of national importance.[5]

Activities

The institution has a special interest in the medicinal plants of

missions and the collections of Emil Hassler. The Paraguayan Ethnobotany Project was established in the mid-1990s in collaboration with the Botanical Garden and Zoo of Asunción. This collaborative framework has facilitated the creation of a large herbarium of Paraguayan medicinal plants and the creation of the Centro de Conservación y Educación Ambiental (Center for Conservation and Environmental Education: CCEAM), located within the Botanical Garden of Asunción.[6][7]

Organic status

From 1 January 2015, under leadership of head gardener Nicolas Freyre and Director Pierre-André Loizeau, the Conservatory and Botanical Gardens became 100% organic, the first public garden in Switzerland to formally meet the standards of Bio Suisse. Although previously almost entirely organic, a bachelor student from the Haute École du paysage, d'ingénierie et d'architecture de Genève validated the requirements. In 2017 the garden will be able to display the Bio Suisse 'Bud' certification label on completion of the required qualification period.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ "CJB Herbarium". Retrieved 16 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Index Herbariorum". Steere Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  3. ^ "CJB - Candollea". www.ville-ge.ch. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  4. ^ "Candollea; Organe du Conservatoire et du Jardin Botaniques de la Ville de Genève. Geneva | International Plant Names Index". www.ipni.org. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  5. ^ "L'inventaire édité par la confédération suisse, canton de Genève" [Swiss inventory of the Canton of Geneva] (PDF) (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-02-17.
  6. ^ "Exposición de nuestra flora nativa esta abierta al público en el jardín botánico" [Our native flora exhibition is open to the public in the botanical garden] (in Spanish). Municipality of Asunción. 4 May 2006. Archived from the original on 2009-07-26.
  7. ^ "Comuna invita a visitar la Exposición Etnobotánica "Nuestras Plantas, Nuestra Gente"" [Community invited to visit the ethnobotanic exhibition "Our Plants, Our People"] (in Spanish). Municipality of Asunción. 8 October 2008. Archived from the original on 2008-12-11.
  8. Radio télévision suisse
    . 18 March 2015.
  9. ^ "Le Jardin botanique est 100% biologique" [The Botanic Garden is 100% organic]. Tribune de Genève (in French). 18 March 2015.

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