On August 20th, the event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Manifesto ‘Catalan, language of scientific expression’ took place in Prada de Conflent, in which Josep Maria Camarasa, member of the board of trustees of the Fundació Carl Faust, manager of the Marimurtra Botanical Garden. Josep Maria Camarasa is one of the four surviving speakers […]
Every year the Carl Faust Foundation welcomes different internship students to the Marimurtra Botanical Garden who carry out the practical learning part of their studies. In this case, Amira Benali, student of the Degree in Biotechnology at the University of Girona, explains to us what her internship at the Garden has consisted of. Basically, he […]
Anaïs Dupuy has taken a 2-month internship from her studies at the National School of Architecture and Landscape Design in Bordeaux to become a landscape designer. During his stay he has carried out maintenance and conservation tasks for the Garden and has also developed the project to consolidate the ethnobotanical area and create a rockery […]
In the Marimurtra Botanic Garden shop you will find a wide variety of products, from the part of the charity shop with products from Intermon Oxfam, to the sale of plants from Marimurtra’s own collection which are a magnificent detail like as a souvenir of the visit to the Garden, and zero kilometer products. One […]
Recently, members of the research group of the Plant Physiology Unit of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, currently coordinated by Roser Tolrà, and until recently coordinated by Charlotte Poschenrieder, member of the Carl Faust Foundation’s board of trustees, visited the Marimurtra Botanical Garden. This group has specialized in the study of plant growth and development […]
Sophie and Henrike are two girls from Germany who decided to volunteer after finishing high school and before deciding on the first steps towards their future career. Through the European Solidarity Corps they found the Green Future project, carried out in collaboration between the Carl Faust Foundation and Naturkultur, e.V., a German entity based in […]
In the last two decades, pests have appeared that have no predator. The use of chemical insecticides to combat them affected other pollinating species, such as bees or birds. Marimurtra has been managing FitoZero in the garden for 6 years (no chemical treatment). When treatments were carried out with chemical products, four treatments were carried […]
Palms belong to the Arecaceae family, which are monocotyledonous flowering plants. It is also known as the palm family (Palmae). It is a family native to tropical and subtropical zones, in Europe there is only one native species, the palmetto (Chamaerops humilis), all the other palms in our territory have been introduced by man. In […]
The University of Barcelona publishes the botanical guide to the Ferran Soldevila garden of the UB This 2023, Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona has published the long-awaited botanical guide on what is one of the most unknown jewels of the city of Barcelona, the Ferran Soldevila garden. Integrated into the historic building of the […]
This specimen of Melaleuca armillaris from the Marimurtra Botanical Garden suffers from its architecture that is dominated by other trees and a horizontal branch that threatens to break. The aim of the intervention is to prevent breakage. This proposal is known as dynamic artificial support, and is based on a concept called the thigmomorphogenesis effect, […]
The Marimurtra Botanic Garden is growing horticultural varieties from Les Refardes, a non-profit cooperative that coordinates the production of organic, certified and local vegetables. Marimurtra aims to spread the biodiversity cultivated with seeds of local varieties of organic production and made in the country. These seeds are produced in an artisanal and collaborative way between […]
Last Monday, June 19, the verdict of the “Carl Faust and Marimurtra” drawing contest was made public. 20 3rd year Primary Education students from the Carl Faust school in Blanes participated in this competition, and this year, as a novelty, 21 6th year students also participated. From each class there was a winner who, in […]
