Gardens in the Netherlands: Botanical Gardens in the Netherlands, Het Loo Palace, Diergaarde Blijdorp, Noordeinde Palace - Tapa blanda

Chapters: Botanical Gardens in the Netherlands, Het Loo Palace, Diergaarde Blijdorp, Noordeinde Palace, Hortus Botanicus Leiden, Huis Doorn, Keukenhof, Hortus Cliffortianus, Dutch Garden, Utrecht University Botanic Gardens, Hortus Botanicus, Von Gimborn Arboretum, Oud Poelgeest, Prinsentuin, Hartekamp, Hortus Botanicus Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Arboretum Trompenburg. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 55. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arboretum Trompenburg is a botanical garden in Rotterdam , the Netherlands , which hosts a large collection of woody as well as herbaceous plants. It occupies an area of 7 ha and is situated 4 m below sea level, so a system of canals is used to drain the land. The history of the garden dates back to the 19th century. Since 1958 it has been open to the public daily for a small fee. Arboretum Trompenburg holds national plant collections of conifers , Quercus , Fagus , Rhododendron , Ligustrum , Rodgersia and Hosta .Websites (URLs online) Coordinates : 51°55 10 N 4°31 6 E / 51.91944°N 4.51833°E / 51.91944; 4.51833A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Old entrance of the Diergaarde in Blijdorp. Diergaarde Blijdorp (Official Dutch name: Stichting Koninklijke Rotterdamse Diergaarde , Foundation Royal Zoo of Rotterdam) is a zoo in the northwestern part of Rotterdam , one of the oldest zoos in the Netherlands . In 2007 it celebrated its 150th anniversary.History Giraffes and monumental buildingThe original Rotterdam Zoo was lost in the bombing of Rotterdam in World War II, which destroyed most of the city centre. Some streetnames, such as Diergaardesingel (Zoolane ), still recall the old zoo. Blijdorp was rebuilt slightly to the north, where it opened to the public in its current location on December 7, 1940. The new zoo was designed by Dutch architect Sybold van Ravesteyn, who desi...