The hottest days of 2024 occurred in August, specifically on the 2nd (35.1 °C) and the 10th (34.9 °C), based on data from the Marimurtra Botanical Garden’s private weather station in Blanes, located in the 1st Garden, which can be viewed live at www.marimurtra.cat/meteo. On the other hand, the coldest days of 2024 were January […]
The environmental consultant Pere Alzina i Bilbeny has carried out an ornithological monitoring in the natural area of the Marimurtra Botanical Garden, in Blanes. In it, he details the birds that live there and also those that visit it sporadically. In total, the analyzed area occupies a total of 16 hectares between the sea and […]
Vicenç Martorell has been the beekeeper of the Marimurtra Botanical Garden for nearly twenty years. Taking advantage of the fact that he is now retired, he has explained to us how the honey in the Garden project began, how it is made and also the obstacles he has encountered during all this time. In 2003, taking […]
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 […]
