Alpengarten Pforzheim
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The Alpengarten Pforzheim is a commercial nursery with botanical garden
specializing in alpine plant
s. It is located at Auf dem Berg 6, Pforzheim
, Baden-Württemberg
, Germany
, and open weekdays in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The garden contains over 100,000 plants from all mountain areas of the world. Its main flowering period is from late April to mid-June when the Alpine roses and rhododendron
s bloom.
Botanical garden
A botanical garden The terms botanic and botanical, and garden or gardens are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word botanic is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens. is a well-tended area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names...
specializing in alpine plant
Alpine plant
Alpine plants are plants that grow in the alpine climate, which occurs at high elevation and above the tree line. Alpine plants grow together as a plant community in alpine tundra.-Alpine plant diversity:...
s. It is located at Auf dem Berg 6, Pforzheim
Pforzheim
Pforzheim is a town of nearly 119,000 inhabitants in the state of Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany at the gate to the Black Forest. It is world-famous for its jewelry and watch-making industry. Until 1565 it was the home to the Margraves of Baden. Because of that it gained the nickname...
, Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states of Germany. Baden-Württemberg is in the southwestern part of the country to the east of the Upper Rhine, and is the third largest in both area and population of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of and 10.7 million inhabitants...
, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, and open weekdays in the warmer months; an admission fee is charged. The garden contains over 100,000 plants from all mountain areas of the world. Its main flowering period is from late April to mid-June when the Alpine roses and rhododendron
Rhododendron
Rhododendron is a genus of over 1 000 species of woody plants in the heath family, most with showy flowers...
s bloom.