Loki Schmidt Garden Botanical of University Hamburg
Twenty-five-hectare university garden of fourteen thousand species around a broad lake, named for a wildflower conservationist.
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This guide to the Loki Schmidt Garden in Hamburg starts with an odd coincidence: a scorpion and two spiky bromeliads all carry the same name, honoring a Hamburg schoolteacher known simply as Loki. You'll hear how Hannelore Schmidt left the classroom to fight for Germany's vanishing wildflowers, founding a conservation foundation in 1976 and later an annual campaign urging the country to notice one overlooked bloom a year. The garden traces back to Caspar Voght's old ornamental farm before it took her name. Stand by the lake at its center, where the story of that tribute really begins.
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