Tour of a Croatian Botanical Garden

This beautiful park in Opatija is full of familiar plants!
Opatija is Croatian coastal town on the Adriatic Sea. A fashionable resort in the 19th century, it's dotted with Habsburg-era villas. The Lungomare is a promenade that snakes along the coastline, offering views of the town and neighboring islands. The 1800s Villa Angiolina, set in a garden of exotic plants, houses the Croatian Museum of Tourism.

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Thank you, Brie, for taking the time to show us the Croatian Botanical Garden.

[@timgarner1957]

Thanks for inviting us on your world tour!

[@sadasivan6159]

Thanks for the botanical garden tour🌳Beautiful, well maintained established garden. Must be very old garden.

[@nicholasryan5401]

Great tour of a Croatian botanical garden, it was the bees knees.

[@gailf.5018]

beautiful Croatia! I am going back again this year. ❤

[@Palmguy24]

Cool tour there Brie. I love all the windmills, big surprise huh. Must be a zone 9 judging by that phoenix palm at the end. Nice!❤😊

[@anrim7537]

Thanks for showing our little piece of paradise. If you haven't been to the Plitvice Lakes, I would definitely recommend it, I've never seen such clean water anywhere, and I live in a country where you can drink water from the tap, no matter what city you're in.
I hope you enjoyed and will visit us again, because there are really wonderful places to explore!

[@SouthCarolinaBetty]

Laurus nobilis is hardier than expected. I live in the South Carolina upstate, USDA zone 8a, and bought a tiny Laurus nobilis herb growing on one stem from Sandy Mush Herb Farm in Western NC in 1974, and overwintered it inside for a decade. In 1985 I planted it permanently outside in the ground and never pruned it, nor did I protect it during winter. It grew multiple trunks and now appears to be approximately 12 to 15 feet tall.
During the winter before last winter, we had an unusual arctic chill down to 7 degrees, and some of the leaves on the Laurus nobilis' tall trunks turned brown. Since some of the leaves on those tall trunks were green, I waited for the dead leaves to fall but they never fell off. Research indicated Laurus nobilis will never release dead leaves, even though it sheds green leaves. Oddly, the tree never had any dead leaves before that exceptionally cold winter.
I couldn't tolerate the appearance of those dead leaves, and decided to remove some of the branches with the dead leaves, but I couldn't reach them standing on my 12 foot ladder, mainly because those branches were growing from the inside of this tight suckering grove of Laurus nobilis, so I recently cut down three of the tall trunks. It appears all the tall trunks have some dead leaves and some green leaves, while all the shorter suckers have only green leaves.
The trunks I removed were not dead nor did the wood appear to be injured; they were simply hanging onto their dead leaves. These tall trunks vary in diameter, from 10 inches to 3 inches. Since the hummingbirds like to sit on the branches of that tree, I stopped cutting down the tall trunks until the hummers migrate South. I'm thinking of removing all the tall trunks and letting the suckers grow.

[@BrieThePlantLady]

Wow that’s amazing to learn! Okay, I’m going to plant one in the ground and see how it grows!!!! Thank you so much for sharing!

[@richardtodd7784]

Ok Croatia is on the retirement bucket list

[@BrieThePlantLady]

We only saw a very small part but loved it!!

[@shokubutsugaku_hi]

You really should go to Japan, the home of so many ornamentals that you're familiar with.

[@BrieThePlantLady]

Maybe one day. That’s a log flight.

[@willaerley7140]

Agreed on barberry. Completely useless. They’re not growing pokeweed on purpose are they? I can’t get rid of it.

[@BrieThePlantLady]

I’m sure it’s not on purpose. I don’t think this garden has a full time staff