The Botanical Gardens is a public park in Belfast, Northern Ireland close to Queen's University.
It stands on 28 acres about 15 minutes walk south of the city centre. It shares an entrance with The Ulster Museum ; bear left for the gardens and right for the museum. We spent almost a full day in The Ulster Museum. Both the gardens and museum are free of charge to visit.
The Botanical gardens opened in 1828 and were private for many years and it became a public park in 1895 when it was bought by the Belfast Corporation .
All photos are my own. I enjoyed I so much here that I immediately started taking photos to share with you all.
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My magnolia did indeed survive, and in fact it flowers twice a year
Thank you for your comment below, on Jun 23, 2022, in answer to my previous, same-day observation and question.
May we revisit your comment 14 boxes down?
Your answer Apr 12, 2017, mentions that "My magnolia tree flowered too soon in the mild weather and I hope it hasn't been damaged by so doing."
Callery pears (Pyrus calleryana) here one year offered their blooms in an early, nice-weather spring. Halfway through that spring, some cold-weather days occurred. The callery pears presented themselves as exactly half blooming canopy, half non-blooming and then as exactly half leafing, half non-leafing.
The next year Callery pears all returned to all-canopy, trunk to tiptop blooming and leafing beautifully. And yet that genus and species generally show themselves quite a bit more fragile and sensitive than magnolia trees.
So your magnolia tree should have showed beautifully, completely, healthfully the next year. Was that indeed the case?
I visited at different visits as the Tropical ravine was still in development when I visited the Botanic gardens . But they could be combined in one visit.
Is it possible to combine actually something that I've managed virtually -- ;-D thanks to your commentaries and images here and on your recentest wizzley ;-D -- visiting the Botanical Gardens and the Tropical Ravine on the same day?
I finally visited the restored Tropical Ravine and have written an article about it .
https://wizzley.com/the-tropical-ravi...
Well as it happens, MBC, Belfast has restored its " Tropical Ravine House " at the Botanic gardens and it is doing very well indeed for visitors so that sounds worth a visit too.
Belfast of course has many wonderful attractions. I am visiting again next month.
Someday I would love to see the Belfast Botanic gardens. I enjoyed your photos.
They have done a huge amount to develop the North and I can not but recommend it. It is marvellous . Visitors to UK , please take time to visit Belfast .
I was a year in Northern Ireland when the trouble were beginning in 1969-1970, and then Belfast was not inspiring, but when I revisited it two years ago, what a change! It is so much improved.
Belfast has long been the poor relation regarding tourism. It is however a gentle and beautiful city with so much to do; a week isn't sufficient to see Northern Ireland.
I am going again in August .