Giardino Botanico Friuli "Cormor"

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Italy - Friuli Venezia Giulia - Udine

Institution Code: CORMO

BGCI Member: No

Friuli Botanic Garden Cormor
Friuli Botanic Garden Cormor

About the Giardino Botanico Friuli "Cormor"

The park is the first leg of a hug plan for restoring the entire hydrogeological basin of Cormor.
The architect Pirzio-Biroli, used old maps to find the traces of olden-day tracks and carriageways.
A drainage and irrigation plan was set into place with a retention basin.
Along the motorway, plantings are particularly thick, so as to create a light-absorbent barrier
On the outskirts of Udine (Italy) a tract of 2000 hectares has been earmarked for conservation. Of them, a 45-hectare area of particularly degraded land along the banks of the river Cormor was recently restored in an experimental park project.
At the entrance to this park the Pavilion destined to house small events, and the warden's house leaning up against it, give the key-note.
Designed by Pirzio-Biroli, the building is rich in references old and new. Its intention salutes the plan for the environs of Potsdam drawn up by Peter Joseph Lenné between 1816 and 1860.
The project also imitates manner: that of Heinrich Tessenow in his first aketches for the National Gallery in Berlin, and of Lenné in his work on the 'Prussian Versailles'.
The figurative research at work in the design is based on the topography: a grove of slender poplars, and vistas receding into the countryside.

from: l'architecture d'aujourd'hui
Joze Plecnik -

Main Address:
Giardino Botanico Friuli "Cormor"
Amici del Parco botanico
via Sagrado 5
Udine
Friuli Venezia Giulia 33100 Italy

Telephone: 3927156120
Fax:
URL: http://www.parcodelcormor.org
Primary Email: parcobotanico@gmail.com

Staff Details

  • Director's Name: Roberto
    Curator's Name: Dennis
    Plant Records Officer's Name: ...

About the Garden

  • Institution Type: Botanic Garden
  • Status
  • Status: Private: Yes
    Status: State: No
    Status: Educational: Yes
    Status: Municipal: Yes
    Status: Satellite: Yes
  • Date founded: 1884
  • Physical Data
  • Natural Vegetation Area: Yes
  • Landscaped Area: Yes
  • Latitude: 46.0836
    Longitude: 13.1902
    Annual Rainfall: 1673 mm
    Altitude: 115.00 Metres
  • Additional Locations
  • Satellite Garden Names: Orto botanico
  • Locality: Information
  • Locality: Garden Name: Giardino Botanico
  • Local Address:
  • Locality: City: Udine
  • Locality: State: Italia

Features and Facilities

  • Herbarium: No
    Arboretum: Yes
    Arboretum Size: 3
  • Open to public: Yes
    Friends society: Yes
    Retail Outlet: Shop: Yes
    Retail Outlet: Plant Sales: Yes
    Disabled access: Yes
  • Number of Volunteers: 5

Plant Collections

  • Special Collections:Some Trees and schrubs - Botanical Garden - UDINE

    Acer campestre
    Acer negundo
    Acer platanoides
    Acer pseudoplatanus
    Alnus glutinosa
    Betula pendula
    Sambucus nigra
    Viburnum lantana
    Viburnum opulus
    Euonymus europaeus
    Cornus sanguinea
    Cornus mas
    Corylus avellana
    Ostrya carpinifolia
    Quercus ilex
    Quercus robur
    Quercus rubra
    Juglans regia
    Laurus nobilis
    Amorpha fruticosa
    Gleditsia triacanthos
    Robinia pseudacacia
    Magnolia grandiflora
    Morus alba
    Brussonetia papyrifera
    Fraxinus ornus
    Pinus nigra
    Platanus x hibrida
    Crataegus monogyna
    Prunus avium
    Prunus spinosa
    Poncirus trifoliata
    Salix alba
    Populus alba
    Populus nigra subsp. nigra
    Populus nigra subsp. italicus
    Populus x canadensis
    Taxus baccata
    Tilia platyphyllos
    Ulmus laevis
    Ulmus minor
    Celtis australis
    Ginkgo biloba
    Ficus carica
    Tilia cardata
    Castanea sativa
    Diospyros kaki
    Aesculus hippocastanum
    Buxus sempervirens
    Prunus laurocerasus
  • Invasive Species Monitoring: Yes

Conservation Programmes

  • Conservation Programme: Yes
    Medicinal Plant Programme: Yes
    Reintroduction Programme: Yes

Research Programmes

  • Conservation - Biology: Yes
    Ecosystem Conservation: Yes
    Education: Yes
    Exploration: Yes
    Agriculture: Yes

Education Programmes

  • Visitor/Education Centre: Yes