Visitors have filled all the places in the workshops and activities organized at the first family festival of the Botànic of the Costa Brava The first family botanical festival Marimurtríssim, held today at the Marimurtra Botanical Garden in Blanes, has been a great success. The Garden posted the sold out ticket poster two days before […]
This year also marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the founder and the centenary of the Marimurtra Botanical Garden Every April 24, the Carl Faust Foundation commemorates the anniversary of the death of the creator of the cross, Carl Faust. This year, the Foundation has organized a series of events for this Wednesday […]
The Marimurtra Botanical Garden presents at the 1st Congress of Young Researchers in Local Studies the summary of the studied herbaria preserved in secondary education centers in Catalonia, by the curator of the herbarium, Carles Burguera. One of the research lines of the Marimurtra Botanic Garden herbarium is the restoration, study and enhancement of ancient […]
The family day will take place on Sunday 5 May and will have activities to discover botany in a fun way with workshops and guided tours “Marimurtríssim” is the first family botanical festival organized by the Carl Faust Foundation at the Marimurtra Botanical Garden in Blanes. This celebration will have a large number of activities […]
Thanks to this action, invasive plants have been removed and nest boxes have been installed to control invasive pests that live in trees The students of the INS Serrallarga de Blanes have, for three days, made a community service at the Marimurtra Botanical Garden in Blanes. The aim of this initiative is for ESO students […]
This Friday, April 12, there will be a training session on organic gardens and their management The Jardí Botànic Marimurtra de Blanes organizes a set of conceptually linked training sessions aimed at the specialized sector of gardening, botany and the world of plants. The next day, this Friday, April 12, is about how local intensive […]
Recently, some restoration work has been carried out on some of the elements of the furniture heritage of Carl Faust’s house. Counting on the professional restorer Raul Mestre, different restoration techniques have been carried out for different pieces of furniture in the house. In 1921, Carl Faust, founder of the Marimurtra Botanical Garden, had the […]
This is the first online publication of the Foundation’s own publishing house, Edicions de Marimurtra The Garden of Epicurus offers a deep and reflective look at the results and knowledge generated in this “Epicurean Republic of biologists” (in Carl Faust’s own words) created a century ago. The publication highlights the importance of contemporary science which, […]
The Index Seminum is a catalog that contains the available seeds. The one in Marimurtra, this year has 185 botanical taxa included in 53 families. As a novelty, this year highlights the presence of 32 traditional horticultural varieties (tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins…), most of them from Catalonia, the result of the research, conservation and dissemination objectives […]
The report made by the environmental consultant Pere Alzina i Bilbeny in 2023 on the ornithological monitoring in the Marimurtra Botanical Garden, in Blanes, presents detailed data on the species of birds that inhabit or visit this natural space. With an area of 16 hectares and a location between the Mediterranean Sea, forests and urban […]
On Sunday, December 14th, there was an exceptional event in Marimurtra: the fertilization of the two female cones of Encephalartos natalensis. The history of cicadas goes back more than 200 million years, they are prehistoric plants and in fact, they coexisted with dinosaurs. Specifically, the species Encephalartos natalensis belongs to the Zamiaceae family and forms […]
Mia and Louisa arrived in Marimurtra in October 2023. After two months of this international volunteering experience of the European Solidarity Corps program and living with the Botanical Garden, they tell us about their experience in the first person: We are enjoying our first few weeks in Blanes to the fullest! We can now start […]
