Basel/Bale/Basle idents - practice

[daltontrees]

It's on Schonbeinstrasse in the Swiss sector, fairly central. Tram stop right outside. Part of the University and it is behind the Botanical Sciences building.

If you go there, they have an excellent catalogue which I got goven a copy of because I asked so many questions (mainly translations). If you go under the hothouse there is a workshop area where the curator hangs out. Show her any professional interest and I'm sure you'll get a copy. It's in German but the important bits are in Latin. Tell her the scottish guy that came in 2013 said she would be giving away copies because they are out of date, she told me the Paulownia at the gate was about to be removed. It did look awful. Not the one in my pics, it was elsewhere.

 

The rest of the pictures were taken here there and everywhere but quite a few in Lorrach in the park beside the Suchard houses, people locally will know where that is if you get off at Lorrach Musee. Worth going to see the twin stemmed monster G. biloba and certainly the biggest M. glyptostroboides I've ever seen. It's just inside Germany and the second last stop on the Lorrach line from Basel Deutsche Banhof but the train starts in the Swiss station so you can get on there.

 

Easyjet flies to Basel Mulhouse, really quite cheap. And Basel/Bale/Basle is fabulous. If you think the germans have civic pride, they will look like amateurs when you see how spick and span and smooth-running a city centre the Swiss do. And trees are accorded proper place.

Edited September 4, 2013 by daltontrees

[PatH]

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