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Botanical Garden in winter – recommended for January walks!

The garden closed to the public at the end of October, but until the end of November you can still see the very atmospheric illuminated lights on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. A new opening in January!

The 2023 season was a particularly good one for the Garden, as the venue continues to see a significant increase in visitors. It was visited by more than 161,000 visitors. The beautiful Arboretum Wojsławice, on the other hand, had almost 130,000 visitors.

As a whole (and the Garden in Wrocław and the Wojsławice Arboretum in Niemcza) was visited by more than 290,000 people in the short season from April to October. This is a very good result, but still the Garden’s management is working to open the unit to a wide range of visitors, also outside the crucial growing season, so we are already returning to our winter weekends from January.

From 12 January until the end of February, the Garden will be open every weekend from 9.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m. As Karolina Sokołowska of the Wrocław Botanical Garden informs: Each opening day we will offer four educational walks so that we can introduce the most interesting plants in our collections, tell you more about succulents, useful plants, tropical beauties, aquatic plants, ivies or the very interesting Nature Panorama, which shows the history of distant times, the evolution of life on earth. The walks will take place in the greenhouses, but individually there will be open-air walks. It will certainly be an interesting experience to find species and varieties of plants that naturally blossom in winter, such as the sweet calla, jasmine, orchids and hellebores.

The year 2023 also saw new developments. We were able to open two new greenhouses to the public and refurbish a third which is a facility for the multiplication of valuable species. In winter 2023/24, it is planned to plant succulents in the renovated Cactus Garden.

Once this work is finished, the reconstruction of the Palm House, which has been closed to the public since 2006, will slowly begin, and Wrocław remains one of the few large cities in the country without a Palm House. But, it is not only the rebuilding of the greenhouse that the Garden Directorate is working on. – Our projects: IN NATURE – in situ and ex-situ conservation of species and natural habitats in the Arboretum Wojsławice OBUWR and Centre for the multiplication and ex situ maintenance of species from Appendix II of the Habitats Directive and those threatened with extinction and protected in Poland – CERES Garden have been positively evaluated and selected for funding of eligible costs in the amount of PLN 9,090,175.58 by the FEDS 2021-2027 Monitoring Committee under the Regional Operational Programme co-financed by the European Union. The total amount of the task is PLN 14,215,675.16 – prof. Zygmunt Kącki, the Director of the Garden, emphasises.

The year 2023 will also see the expansion of the collection to include numerous species from both exotic and our native flora. Thanks to the University of Wrocław Botanical Garden’s inclusion on the list of CITES-registered units, it is definitely easier to bring valuable species to the Garden. – We are the 8th unit in Poland to have obtained such a certificate – the director emphasises.

The year 2024 is sure to be a very busy one, as new, wide-ranging opportunities are opening up for the Garden’s work on biodiversity and the acquisition of particularly valuable and endangered species in the wild. There are also plans to expand the educational offer. – We want to offer more activities for schoolchildren, who, in addition to guided tours of the Garden, will also be able to take advantage of dedicated lessons on diversity and nature conservation. – Karolina Sokołowska says. Looking forward to April, when both the Wrocław Garden and the Wojsławice Arboretum will host a tulip festival and it will be beautiful and spring-like – we invite you to join us for weekend walks in January!

Translated by Bartłomiej Dłubak (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.

The project “Integrated Program for the Development of the University of Wrocław 2018-2022” co-financed by the European Union from the European Social Fund

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