The herbarium of the Carl Faust Foundation-Jardí Botànic Marimurtra has received the donation of a personal herbarium prepared by Dolors Rubirola during his high school studies at the Jaume Vicens Vives Institute in Girona in 1974. The herbarium consists of fifty folds of plants among which there are also specimens of mosses and lichens. Most […]
A total of 300 students from three high schools in Blanes are passing through the Marimurtra Botanical Garden this month to extract invasive plants from the forests. This action is included in the framework of a community service project coordinated by the environmental association Xatrac and financed by the Generalitat. In addition to the removal […]
Controls reduce the population of tiger mosquitoes (Aedes albopictus) and the risk of disease transmission. This is one of the conclusions of the doctoral thesis that Laura Blanco, veterinarian and Master in Public Health, has researched for four years in Marimurtra:
This year, Science Week has activities aimed at various audiences: adults, families and schoolchildren. The first of the organized activities, the most scientific Marimurtra -Saturday November 16-, had a presentation by the archaeologist, naturalist and explorer Jordi Serrallonga, who commented on the importance of Charles Darwin’s research to understand evolution of plant species. Thanks to […]
Edicions de Marimurtra presents the first volume of the Indrets de Marimurtra collection, a tool for getting to know the Marimurtra Botanical Garden better, because it relates and values the names of the spaces in the Garden with these characters without whom Marimurtra would not be the same. The first of the books that has […]
The Marimurtra Botanical Garden is currently working on the preservation of Encephalartos natalensis, a species native to South Africa. It is a plant similar in appearance to a small palm tree, but which produces giant cones and which can be seen growing vigorously in the palm grove area of the second garden, well-groomed by its […]
This year’s Marimurtra Monograph – held last Saturday, October 19 – focused on the botanical family of palm trees. The day featured two great experts in this field, who gave their presentations. On the one hand, Javier Segura (Palmasur) spoke with a presentation on palm trees used in Mediterranean gardens, and Teresa Garceran, philologist and […]
Marimurtra welcomes Vianne and Melina, volunteers for the @EuropeanYouthEU program They are the two German volunteers who are part of the “Volunteers for a Green Future” project, coordinated together with the German organization Naturkultur, e.V. and framed within the European program “European Solidarity Corps”. The objective is to offer young people the opportunity to participate […]
Autumn is the time for pumpkins. For this reason, the Marimurtra Botanical Garden is hosting an exhibition of pumpkins these days in which you can see about fifteen species, which include the places and years of production of each of them. Some stand out for their size, others for being too small and some varieties […]
The recovery, conservation, dissemination and enhancement of local horticultural varieties are some of the actions carried out by the Marimurtra Botanical Garden. In this direction, during the last few weeks, several traditional local horticultural varieties of tomatoes, peppers and eggplants have been collected, which you can find in the garden area of the Garden. The […]
The biologist and curator of the herbarium of the Marimurtra Botanical Garden, Carles Burguera, will offer a conference on September 21st on the study of the herbarium carried out in Cassà de la Selva by the Jesuit P. Longí Navàs SJ (Cabassers, El Priorat 1858 – Girona, 1938). This herbarium has been preserved in the […]
The Marimurtra Botanical Garden commemorates today the 150th anniversary of the birth of Carl Faust (1874-1952), the founder of the Garden. For this reason, the Carl Faust Foundation has organized an event attended by patrons and staff. The president of the Foundation, Cristòfol Jordà, and several patrons placed a bouquet of flowers on Carl Faust’s […]
