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International Society for Horticultural Science

Horticulture Research International

Botanical Garden (Univ. Upsala) / University of Uppsala / Sweden

Address
Villav„gen 8

Town/City
Uppsala

POST/ZIP code
752 36

Telephone No.
(+46) 18-47122838

Fax Number
(+46) 18-4712831

Email Address
botanical.garden@botan.uu.se

Organisational Structure
The garden is subservient to horticultural departments of the university and to other organisations and introduces new plant material.
The garden consists of 13 ha plantings and arrangements including a large baroque-garden established in 1650 and an old Orangery (1807), several plant collections e.g. cacti, Sorbus, E. Asian shrubs and trees, Paeonia, Hosta, Betula, Nordic alpine plants, succulents and water-plants. Besides, an arboretum and a seed collection completes the Botanical Garden.
Status: governmental

Elevation
25 m

Annual Rainfall
500 mm

Hours of Sunshine
2200

Commodity
botanical garden

Discipline
botany (gene bank), taxonomy, cultivar testing (winter hardiness) and introduction

Staff:
¸rhammar, E.
Grusell, C.
Hansson, L.
Iwarsson, M.
de Korostenski, K.
Lid‚n, M.
Lindvall, K.
Martinsson, K.
Nilsson, ™.
Nilsson, S.
Samuelsson, S.
Willmer, B.


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