The green year

The Green world of gothenburg

A whole year of green experiences in Scandinavia’s leading parks – this is what Gothenburg Green World 2016 was all about. A rich selection of program activities and fantastic exhibitions through all seasons was offered to visitors from near and far.

Gothenburg Botanical Garden, Gunnebo House and Gardens in Mölndal, Liseberg Park, and the Garden Society of Gothenburg (Trädgårdsföreningen) in collaboration with the City of Gothenburg’s Parks and Landscape Administration, together make up the Gardens of Gothenburg and are once again presented a collective international garden exhibition.

“We did combine the forces to make 2016 the ‘Year of the Horticultural Capital’,” says Cecilia Liljedahl, project manager for Gothenburg Green World. The parks were exhibiting throughout the whole year, from early spring until winter. Gardens reflect the changing seasons, each of which has its highlights. We wanted to focus on the strengths of each park and offer something for every season.

“The parks did each inspire us in their own way and showed off their best sides through the seasons. It started with the inauguration on February 27 at Gothenburg Botanical Garden, with Wild Spring, and continued with a comprehensive programme that featured several botanical exhibitions. As an exhibition of orangery plants at Gunnebo Castle, and also will have completed its unique Orangery according to historical drawings within a year. We have developed land art in the parks along with Italian Arte Sella; the main land art park in Europe. Visiting designers from parks in the UK and German parks have collaborated with local gardeners and inspired to make new content in traditional environments.

For the first time in Scandinavia, we showed an international photo exhibition, IGPOTY, with garden and landscape as the main motive. The city’s main boulevard Avenyn was an open Garden Show when the sidewalks were filled with interesting concept gardens with social and ecological sustainability as a theme, during the summer months. Poseidon, Gothenburg icon sculpture at the square Götaplatsen, became embedded in the most beautiful greenery for everyone to enjoy. We also invited one of the world’s leading bamboo artists; Japanese Tetsunori Kawana into creating a large bamboo sculpture at Millenniumplatsen Square in the city centre. In the photo gallery below you will find highlights from the past year.

Gothenburg has a great variety of parks and gardens – stretching from seventeenth-century parks, of which Gunnebo is the best example in Sweden, to historic city parks such as Garden Society of Gothenburg with its unique Palm House, and Gothenburg Botanical Garden, which ranks among the best in Europe, all the way to the newly created Jonsered Gardens (Jonsereds trädgårdar) with its strong social profile, to mention just a few.

In the menu above you can read all about the parks and find links to their own websites, where you will find their programme for 2017. It is just as exciting as 2016!

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