Madeira Botanical Garden
Hillside garden of labelled endemic and exotic plants, succulents, palms and topiary on terraced slopes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Madeira Botanical Garden in Funchal starts with a sum that will not come out right: a plan for a garden on the island posted to Lisbon in seventeen ninety-eight, and the gate you walk through today. It follows a physician's report, a nursery on the hill at Monte, and the naturalists of the eighteen hundreds who kept making the case. Best heard near the entrance, where the first labelled beds begin.
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