Hi Mummy,
today we went to Wuppertal to visit the Botanical garden there. Unfortunately Wuppetal's main attraction, the "Schwebebahn", is closed due to repair works.
In the background you can see the "Justizzentrum" with local court and district court.
The Botanical garden is situated on a hilled called "Hardt", we had to climb umpteen stairs to get there.
The closer we came to the Botanical garden the more lovely were the dwellings, mostly beautiful mansions.
You can find the former country house of a textile manufacturers named Eller, which contained a villa (built 1820), orangery, residential and farm buildings, and the Elise Tower (built 1838) which provides the garden's focal point.
We saw different kinds of gardens, like this rockery...
... and different flowers.
Here you can see Elise Tower once more.
I also had a look at the garden with medicinal herbs.
Here is one of the most famous medicinal herbs: Purple coneflower or Echinacea.
These are Angel's trumpets, originally from South America. Angel's trumpets are beautiful flowers, but extremely poisonous.
There is also a pond in the Botanical garden.
We rested in the shade of this Phoenix plant.
We also had a look at the greenhouses in the entrance area. We found bananas here.
There is an exhibition with butterfly sculptures.
Later we went to the city centre to pick up Katja's daughter from her work place in a restaurant. On our way there we saw this great fountain in front of the city hall.
We had a large ice cream and went home than.
Bye
Shesh
