Utrecht Botanic Gardens
University gardens on a waterline fort, with a vast rock garden, tropical greenhouses and evolution route.
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This guide to the Utrecht Botanic Gardens in Utrecht starts in twenty twenty-two, with a university vice president planting the first tree of a garden that did not yet exist. It follows the university's plant collections back to a teaching garden for medical students in sixteen thirty-nine, and forward to the laboratory work that made botanists question their own beds. Best heard at the start of the evolution garden route, near the square where it begins.
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