 The Glass Houses, Sheffield Botanical Gardens The Sheffield Botanical Gardens are botanical gardens situated off Ecclesall Road in Sheffield, England, with 5,000 species of plant in 19 acres (77,000 m²) of land. Image File history File links SheffieldBotGards. ...
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Inside the United States Botanic Garden Inside the Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden (Brazil), 1890 Botanical gardens (in Latin, hortus botanicus) grow a wide variety of plants primarily categorized and documented for scientific purposes, but also for the enjoyment and education of visitors, a consideration that has become essential to...
Ecclesall today is a suburb and a parish in the City of Sheffield, England. ...
Sheffield is a major city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, in the north of England. ...
Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq mi Population - 2005 est. ...
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biodiversity. ...
Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta...
The gardens were designed by Robert Marnock and first opened in 1836. The most notable feature of the gardens are the Grade II* listed glass pavilions, restored and reopened in 2003. Other notable structures are the main gateway, a Crimean War Memorial, and a bear pit. Robert Marnock (1800 - 1899) was one of the outstanding horticulturalists and garden designers of the 19th century and was considered by his contemporaries to be the best exponent of the gardenesque school of landscape gardening. ...
October 2, Charles Darwin returns from his voyage around the world. ...
Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...
Glass can be made transparent and flat, or into other shapes and colors as shown in this sphere from the Verrerie of Brehat in Brittany. ...
A free-standing garden pavilion, Hofgarten in Munich, Bavaria In architecture a pavilion (from French, pavillon) has two main significations. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Combatants United Kingdom France Ottoman Empire Kingdom of Sardinia Russian Empire Casualties 17,500 British 90,000 French 35,000 Turkish 2,050 Sardinian killed, wounded and died of disease 256,000 killed, wounded and died of disease The Crimean War lasted from 1854 until 1 April 1856 and was...
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External links
- Sheffield Botanical Gardens website
- Sheffield Botanical Gardens - information on garden history
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Botanical Gardens | Bowden Housteads Woods | Concord Park | Cholera Monument and Clay Wood
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High Hazels Park | Hillsborough Park and Garden | Hutcliff Wood | Longley Park
Meersbrook Park | Millhouses Park | Norfolk Park | Rother Valley | Rivelin Valley | Weston Park Sheffield is a major city and metropolitan borough in South Yorkshire, in the north of England. ...
Abbeyfield House in Abbeyfield Park, Sheffield. ...
Beauchief Gardens is a small area of formal parkland in south-west Sheffield. ...
Beauchief Abbey is an abbey in Sheffield, England. ...
Beeley Wood is a woodland in the north of the City of Sheffield, near Middlewood. ...
View of Ranmoor from Bingham Park. ...
Bowden Housteads Woods are woods in Darnall, Sheffield. ...
Woolley Woods at the North East of the park. ...
The Cholera Monument. ...
Ecclesall Woods, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England Ecclesall Woods is an area of woodland in south-west Sheffield, between Abbeydale Road South and Ecclesall. ...
The woods of Endcliffe Park. ...
Firth Park ward—which includes the districts of Firth Park, Longley, Parson Cross and parts of Wincobank—is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. ...
Graves Park ward is one of the 28 electoral wards in City of Sheffield, England. ...
High Hazels Park. ...
The fishing lake. ...
Hutcliff Wood and Marriott Wood are two areas of ancient woodland in Sheffield. ...
Meersbrook Park is set on a steep hillside in Meersbrook and offers a stunning panoramic view over central Sheffield to the north. ...
Millhouses Park is a large park in the south of Sheffield. ...
Plan of Norfolk Park. ...
The Rother Valley Country Park is a country park on the border of Sheffield, Rotherham, and Nottinghamshire. ...
One of many ponds on the River rivelin Rivelin Valley is a woodland valley in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. ...
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