A walk in the Botanical Garden during Summer 夏天在哥德堡植物园散步

My younger brother came for a short visit to Gothenburg last week. One of the places we decided to visit was the Gothenburg Botanical Garden.

The botanical garden covers an area of 40 hectares and is home to 16,000 different species. The garden was initially a rural estate named Stora Änggården. The city of Gothenburg took the initiative to make it "a field for experimentation and biological demonstrations, and a nature park" in the 1912. After years of planning and reconstruction, the garden was finally complete and inaugurated in 1923 when Gothenburg celebrated its 300th anniversary.

A side note is one may notice the road outside the main entrance of the garden is named Carl Skottsbergs road. This is to commemorate the first director of the garden, Carl Skottsberg, who as a botanist, made several research trips around globe to collect rare plants for the garden.

Beside the gorgeous flowers and the diversity of plants which one may see during the visit, the garden consists of hilly terrains and cliffs which one may hike to the top to have a nice view of the Gothenburg city. And I really appreciate the small waterfall at the theme "Rock Garden" in every visit. The scent of nature and the sound from the waterfall really bring you away from the mundane daily life.

To my surprise, I later learned that Rock Garden received an award of two stars from the Michelin Green Guide.

Before I keep babbling, let me share some wonderful pictures I took from the botanical garden last week.

我的弟弟上周来哥德堡探望我几天。我们参观了几个景点，其中之一是哥德堡植物园。

植物园占地40公顷，拥有16,000种不同的物种。花园最初是一个名为 Stora Änggården的乡村庄园。 1912年，哥德堡市主动将其作为“生物学的自然公园”。经过多年的规划和重建，花园终于在1923年哥德堡庆祝成立300周年之际举办了开幕典礼。

如果你站在花园正门，你会注意到和花园前的道路被命名为Carl Skottsbergs路。这是为了纪念花园的第一任主任卡尔·斯科茨伯格（Carl Skottsberg），他作为一名植物学家，在全球各地进行了多次研究，为花园收集各种珍稀的植物。

除了鲜艳的花朵和各种植物，花园的地形是蛮丘陵的，但参观的人们还是可以徒步到顶部，在高才处欣赏哥德堡市的美景。其中，我非常欣赏“Rock Garden”主题的小瀑布。大自然的气息和瀑布的声音真的让你远离平凡的日常生活。

令我惊讶的是，后来我了解到“Rock Garden”获得了米其林绿色指南中的两颗星奖。

在我继续唠叨之前，让我分享一下我和弟弟上周从植物园拍摄的精彩照片。