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Around 150 km to south from Seoul, near a small town Yongin, there is the
biggest botanical garden of Korea. It is called the "Hantaek Botanical Garden".
In the introductory brochure it is stated, that since 1979 the Foundation
that maintains this botanical garden has collected about 7.2 million plants
of 8000 species including rare, endangered, native, and introduced plants.
This makes it the biggest botanical garden in Korea. Surely it is one of the
biggest botanical gardens I ever visited - and I visited many of them. The
two pearls of this Hantaek Botanical Garden are the "Hosta Collection" and
the "Lotus Collection". In my opinion each of these two collections is
amongst largest in the world (if not the largest). On this photo-page I am
showing these more interesting hosta plants from the Hantaek Hosta Collections.
#A1.
"Hosta" is the name of ornamental vegetation (flowers) that are native to Korea:
The name "hosta" is assigned to a "rhizomatous
perennial" which grows mostly in cooler climates.
Hosta belongs to
the Liliaceae family with around 70 species, a herbaceous perennial
treasured for their lovely foliage, which has a range of colour - yellow,
different shades of green, bluish green, varied combinations of green
and white, green and yellow and golden. Their mauve or white bell-shaped
flowers are borne on scapes. They like a cool, shady, environment with
moist but well-drained fertile soil and do not tolerate drought. A native
of the Far East and East Russia, they do not grow naturally in Europe or
America. But they are spread throughout the entire world as favourite
ornamental plants kept by people in their homes. Because hosta are also
native to Korea, the Hantaek Botanical Garden has an impressive collection
of these plants, as I believe probably one amongst largest in the world
(if not the largest one).
Please notice that the last photograph "Fig. 15" below shows the lotus flower on the foreground,
while a lotus pond on the background. Apart from the huge hosta collection, the Hantaek
Botanical Garden has also an extensive collection of lotus plants and flowers. In my opinion
this collection of lotus plants is one amongst the biggest in the world. The only area which
would be comparable to lotus ponds of the Hantaek Botanical Garden would be the "Lake Chini"
in Malaysia, which used to be one of the biggest lotus areas in the world. Unfortunately,
Malaysians unwisely destroyed lotus plants from the Lake Chini, thus loosing their leading
lotus role in the world.
More interesting facts and photographs concerning South Korea,
as well as a more complete description of life in Korea, are provided on the
Korea page.
#A1.1.
My photographs of most interesting samples of "hosta" from the Hantaek's collections:
Fig. 1
Fig. 2
Fig. 3
Fig. 4
Fig. 5
Fig. 6
Fig. 7
Fig. 8
Fig. 9
Fig. 10
Fig. 11
Fig. 12
Fig. 13
Fig. 14
Fig. 15
For further curiosities of Korea see the web page Korea
#A2.
How with the web page named
"skorowidz_links.htm"
one can find totaliztic descriptions
of topics in which he is interested:
A whole array of topics equally interesting
as these from the above web page, is also
discussed from the angle that is unique to
the philosophy of totalizm. All these related
topics can be found and identified with the use of
content index
prepared especially to make easier finding
these web pages and topics. The name "index"
means a list of "key words" usually provided
at the end of textbooks, which allows to find
fast the description or the topic in which we
are interested. My web pages also has such
a content "index" - only that it is additionally
supplied in green
links
which after "clicking" at them with a mouse
immediately open the web page with the topic
that interest the reader. This content "index"
is provided on the web page named
skorowidz_links.htm.
It can be called from the "organising" part of
"Menu 1" of every totaliztic web page. I would
recommend to look at it and to begin using it
systematically - after all it brings closer hundreds
of totaliztic topics which can be of interest to
everyone.
#A3.
Emails and contact details to the
author
of this web page:
Current email addresses to the author of
this web page, i.e. officially to
Dr Eng. Jan Pajak
while courteously to Prof. Dr Eng. Jan Pajak,
at which readers can post possible comments,
inquiries, or replies to questions which I ask on
my web pages, are provided on the web page
about me (Dr Eng. Jan Pajak).
That page also provides other commonly used
contact details to the author.
The author's right for the use of courteous
title of "Professor" stems from the custom that
"with professors is like with generals", namely
when someone is
once a professor, than he or she courteously
remains a professor forever. In
turn the author of this web page was a professor
at 4 different universities, i.e. at 3 of them,
from 1 September 1992 untill 31 October 1998,
as an "Associate Professor" from English-based
educational system, while on one university as
a (Full) "Professor" (since 1 March 2007 till
31 December 2007 - means at the last place
of employment in his professional life).
However, please notice that because of my
rather chronic lack of time, I reluctantly
reply to emails which contain JUST time
consuming requests, while simultaneously
they document a complete ignorance of their
author in the topic area which I am researching.
Therefore, if the reader sends a request to me,
I suggest to let me know somehow that he or
she actually went through the trouble of reading
my web pages and learning what these pages
try to say.
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Date of starting of this web page: 3 August 2007
Date of the latest updating of this web page: 12 December 2012
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