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Two regular visitors guarding our Palm Greenhouse! Can you spot them?👀⁠
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💖Lovely photo taken by @_georgiaal. Thank you!⁠
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📸Please share your Hortus moments with us! We love to see captures like these.⁠🌹

Happy Wednesday!⁠
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😍Slowly but surely, the Hortus is becoming more and more colourful! ⁠
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Are you looking forward to spring, or are you a more of a winter lover?🥶☃️

A sunny spot for this 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴, now flowering in the Hortus. ⁠We love the colours on this one, don't you?⁠
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😷The Romans used 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘴 for medicinal purposes: to induce sneezing. It was used in the treatment of several mental illnesses that were considered to be caused by an excess of black bile. Sneezing was thought to reduce the amount of black bile.🤒 ⁠
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🌿In Dutch, 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘶𝘴 is also known as 'stinkend nieskruid' ('stinking sneezeweed').

𝘗𝘦𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘮 is now flowering in our nursery greenhouse. ⁠
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💗It's found in the North and Western Cape of South Africa. It has thick clusters of brilliant cerise-pink flowers, that can be spotted from afar.

Cute little balls with a funky hairdo!⁠
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❤️‍🔥You're looking at the fruits of 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢, also known as Indian shot or African arrowroot. It's now in full bloom in our Tropical Greenhouse and bears beautiful bright-red flowers. ⁠
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🌱The seeds are small, black pellets: they're so hard and dense that they sink in water. They resemble shotgun pellets: hence the name Indian shot. ⁠
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🔫It's said that during the Indian Mutiny in the 19th century, soldiers used the seeds of the plant when they ran out of bullets.⁠

Remember our quiz-story yesterday? You were looking at the flowers of the beautiful red-and-green cobra lily (𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘳), also known as suurkanolpypie. ⁠
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It's now flowering in our Subtropical Greenhouse. ⁠
👉🏽𝗦𝘄𝗶𝗽𝗲 to see it pre-bloom!

Hortus-visitor @clarerandellphotography shared these beautiful photographs with us that she took in October during her trip to Amsterdam. Thank you so much💚🌿.⁠
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Have you visited the Hortus recently and do you also have some garden views you want to share? Send us a DM! We love to see the garden through our visitor's eyes!🌸

Another early bloomer: the pale yellow flower of 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘷𝘶𝘭𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘴, or common primrose. ⁠
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🌼If conditions are ideal, this primrose can cover the ground in open woods. It's found mainly by streams, under bushes and in clear, moist deciduous forest. In The Netherlands the common primrose is very rare and strongly declined. However, you can spot it in the Hortus Snippendaal garden! ⁠
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🍸️It was said that drinking primrose tea should help against colds and other illnessess. The leaves mixed with jenever (genever, Dutch gin) was said to ward off strokes.

😍Have you spotted snowdrops already? ⁠
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🥛There are about 20 species of 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴, with the name 𝘎𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴 (common snowdrop) coming from the Greek 'gala' and 'anthus', meaning 'milky flower' and the Latin 'nivalis' meaning 'of the snow'.❄️⁠
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Jade plant, lucky plant or money plant: these are all synonyms for 𝘊𝘳𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘢 𝘰𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘢. This succulent is now flowering in our Palm Greenhouse. ⁠
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🪙It's a popular houseplant, because it doesn't require a lot of care or skill. It only needs a little water and can survive in most indoor conditions. ⁠
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👀Do you have one in your collection too? ⁠

Walking up the stairs in our Tropical Greenhouse you'll stumble upon the flowers of 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘮𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘹𝘶𝘮. The plant is native to Venezuela. ⁠
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🧡We love the striking orange of its flowers, and it's looooong stamens too!

🤯Something special is about to flower in our Palm Greenhouse! ⁠
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💛There is only one place in the whole world were you can still find this plant in the wild, which is on the Canary Islands. And even there the plant is rare: it's only found in the south of Tenerife and in a couple of canyons on Gran Canaria. ⁠
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👀You're looking at the magnificent lemon yellow flowers of the 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻! 𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴 forms huge heads of dandelion-like flowers at the tops of its branches.

Buds, buds, buds! Spring is getting nearer! ⁠
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🌟We notice more and more are forming on branches in the Hortus. These are the buds of our star magnolia (𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘢). A magnolia tree will have two different kinds of buds: the bigger ones are responsible for the flowers, the smaller buds will bring forth fine green leaves!🌿⁠
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👉️𝗦𝘄𝗶𝗽𝗲 to see the beautiful flowers that bloom around March.

🥰Who doesn't love honeysuckle? ⁠
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Near our big pond you will notice a strong, sweet smell.⁠
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🐝It's coming from this 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘢 species, more specifically the 𝘓𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘢 × 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘪 or purpus honeysuckle. This lovely shrub bears strongly fragrant flowers, with creamy, yellow flowers in winter.💮

❤️Did you know we not only have butterflies flying around in our butterfly greenhouse? We also have their pupae, which are just as unique and beautiful as the species themselves! ⁠
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🦓Pictured are the pupae of 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢, or zebra longwing butterfly. When the tiny caterpillars hatch from their eggs, most of them are moved to the nursery next to our butterfly greenhouse. Here they can eat peacefully (and they eat a lot!). When the caterpillar is full grown and stops eating it's ready to pupate. ⁠
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🦋These little miracle pupaes are then moved back to the butterfly greenhouse, where they will hatch and fly freely, looking for a mate... and the cycle starts again.

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