Rose Garden Festival 2024 and International Plant Fascination Day: appointment on Sunday 5 May 2024 at the Botanical Garden of Pavia.
Rose Garden Festival 2024
There Rose Garden Festival on the days of the most intense blooms. The most awaited and traditional event all‘Botanic Garden of Pavianow in its 29th edition, will be on Sunday 5 May 2024 from 10am to 6pm. An unmissable opportunity to admire the two hundred roses that make up one of the main collections of the Botanical Garden, which is part of the University Museum System of the University of Pavia.
The Botanical Garden will be It can be visited independently or guided by the Friends of the Botanical Garden Association and the curator of the Garden, who will pay particular attention to the rose collection renewed in recent years. Also of great interest are the new collections (financed by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Ministry of Culture) of carnivorous, aquatic, citrus, peonies, irises, hosta, bamboo and fruit-bearing plants.
Fascination of Plants Day 2024
There are many good reasons to visit the Rose Garden Festival this year.
“To begin with, our Botanical Garden has decided to join the International Plant Fascination Day (Fascination of Plants Day 2024), – explains the director of the Botanical Garden, Silvia Assini – this is the international event promoted by EPSO (European Plant Science Organization), in which over 220 universities, research institutes, botanical gardens, parks, schools and academies participate, organizing events for raise awareness of the importance of plant research“.
The other initiatives
The Rose Garden Festival will also be accompanied in this edition by a “Outside the Garden” with the exhibition and the possibility of purchasing rose plants, aromatic plants, grasses, dahlias and wildflowers from some well-known nurseries in northern Italy. There will be space for horticultural plants from the province of Pavia and honey producers in addition to various street food proposals for lunches, snacks or aperitifs.
Inside the cloister of the Botanical Garden, interactive stations will be organized to tell the public about research and projects, carried out by botanists and agronomists from Pavia of the University’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, on alpine plants and climate change, on taxonomy of plants, on local agricultural varieties, on agroecosystems, on the ecological restoration of habitats, on medicinal plants, on trees and forests.
The cloister will also host the competition “The most beautiful Rose” organized by the Friends of the Botanical Garden Association. Those interested in participating can present themselves the same morning, from 10.00 to 12.00, at the Association table with the rose or roses that they intend to participate in the competition.
The Rose Garden Festival will continue the following week with visits organized by the Botanical Garden library.
Schedule visits
- May 5th – 10.30am, 2.30pm and 3.15pm: Guided visits to the botanical garden with the Friends of the Botanical Garden. On reservation CLICKING HERE or [email protected] – 0382 986220
- May 5th – 4.00 pm: Guided tour with the Curator of the new collections of the botanical garden, introduced with the PNRR project.
- On reservation CLICKING HERE or [email protected] – 0382 986220
- May 710.30 am and May 9th, 2.30 pm: “The rose garden in the library: a guided tour to discover the historical collections of the Botanical Garden library, with a focus on roses”. upon reservation at [email protected]
All visits are free. Entrance to the Botanical Garden is 2 euros. For the complete program CLICK HERE.
