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Japanese biology student Izai Kikuchi is specialised in orchids. This evening he shows you beautiful and special specimens, with extra focus on the orchids from Indonesia. English language. Fully booked.
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From 11 to 20 August a great variety of carnivorous plants is displayed on various locations in the Hortus. Children (and adults) can feed plants. In addition to this carnivorous plants are on sale from 11 - 13 August.
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In August you can visit the Hortus and get a free guided tour through the gardens and greenhouses. The tours are in English and in Dutch. The English tours start at 16:00.
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This year the international carnivorous plants congress will be held in the Hortus Leiden. From 11 – 13 August the Hortus will be all about the strange, interesting and beautiful little plants that have stirred the imagination of men since their discovery in the 18th century. Since the Hortus celebrates the 200-year birthday of the Kebun Raya Bogor, the emphasis will be on Indonesian carnivorous plants.
Professor Paul Keβler, prefect of the Leiden Hortus botanicus, holds the special chair Botanical gardens and botany of South-East Asia since 1 February 2017.
The Hortus botanicus will be closed for the Christmas Holidays, from 24 December until 2 January. On January 3th you are most welcome again to visit the gardens and the greenhouses. In 2017 the Hortus also celebrates the Leiden Asia Year and every visitor will receive a free recipebooklet with recipes from Onno Kleyn. At first these recipes are only in Dutch but you can download an English version here shortly.
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On October 27 Jesper Kårehed will give a lecture in English on Carl Peter Thunberg. The lecture is in English.
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In the weekend of 10 and 11 September the Hortus will be open for the Heritage Days Leyden. In this weekend the oldest botanical garden in The Netherlands will be freely accessible for everybody. Come and enjoy the beautiful garden, and, of course, the monumental glasshouses and Oranjerie (1744).
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Shantonu Abe Chatterjee from Japan, a student at Wageningen University, is writing a thesis on the manuscripts about Japanese vegetables and cereals in the Von Siebold collection: the ‘Agricultural Encyclopaedia’ written by Seikei Zusetusu (1793), which include 134 botanical plates of Japanese vegetables and cereals.
