The Museum Garden Greenhouse - Cold house
In mediterranean and subtropical regions, summer days are bright and warm (25掳C-30掳 or more) and winter days are cool or cold (5掳C-15掳), but very rarely with frost. In the Mediterranean, winter is the wettest part of the year and summer is dry. We have this climate in the Cold House.
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In the Cold House, you will find plants from several different flora areas that have in common that they prefer a cool winter, but can't tolerate frost, so we can not keep them outside. Here you can find plants from the rich flora of the Mediterranean, the Canary Islands, South Africa, Australia, South America, California and elsewhere.
The most humid part of the Cold House is closest to the door, with orchids and a fern tree from south-eastern Australia. In the northern corner we show examples of so-called 鈥榗arnivorous鈥� plants. It gets drier the further in you go and in the far west is our desert area. There we have plants that have special adaptions to cope with long periods of drought. Most of them are succulents that collect water in their leaves or stems: cacti, living stones, crassula, etc.
Many crop plants are grown in places with a Mediterranean climate and we show some such examples in the middle bed: citrus fruits, fig trees, pomegranates, laurel trees, olive trees and tree tomatoes.
