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Location: La Rochelle, Hotel and Botanic Garden
Photo: Petra Ballings
La Rochelle Hotel
Photo: Petra Ballings
Front lawn at La Rochelle Hotel
Photo: Petra Ballings
Frangipani and other ornamental trees in front of La Rochelle Hotel
Photo: Petra Ballings
Path through the forest-like part of La Rochelle Botanic Garden
Photo: Petra Ballings
One of the many water features in La Rochelle Botanic Garden
Photo: Petra Ballings
Cathy Sharp and Bart at La Rochelle Botanic Garden
Photo: Bart Wursten
Small waterfall in the forest part of La Rochelle Botanic Garden
Photo: Bart Wursten
Scadoxus pole-evansii flowering at La Rochelle Botanic Garden
General Information
Quarter degree square: 1832D3 Country: Zimbabwe Habitat: Miombo woodland on a hillside, disturbed areas and park-like landscapes with streams and ponds Altitude range: 1180 - 1260 m Annual rainfall: Location (short): Location (detailed): |
Description
Most of the surrounding areas of the La Rochelle Hotel are taken up by both open and more or less densely wooded park-like landscapes of the Botanic Garden with a wide array of planted trees, shrubs and herbaceous species, both exotic and native. The relatively high rainfall and numerous water features in the form of dams, ponds, streams and waterfalls, have created an evergreen, forested landscape with many Eastern Highlands species thriving.
Behind the hotel, a hillside of mixed Miombo woodland is a still largely intact and undisturbed but closer to the Hotel and along the Mbiza Valley road many alien plants have become naturalised, including some more unusual species such as Amphilophium crucigerum (Bignoniaceae).
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