Arboretum Trompenburg
Below-sea-level arboretum of rare oaks, conifers and rhododendrons laced with drainage canals.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Trompenburg Gardens and Arboretum in Rotterdam starts in nineteen twenty-eight, the year the estate lost every one of its elms. It follows the Smith family of shipowners and the father and son who turned cleared ground into a collection of rare trees, along with a Rotterdam plant pathologist who first described the disease. You'll also hear about an acorn hunt in Hamburg and the odd logic behind some oak names. Best heard beside one of the garden's drainage canals.
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