Touring camellias make a stop in Gothenburg
Monday, March 8th, 2010I must confess I was really struggling to come up with a good topic for today’s article. But then mum suggested I should write about camels… Well, not really, though. What she actually said was ‘camellias’, but just as in English, camels and camellias can sound really alike in Swedish when uttered quickly. While there are no camels in Gothenburg for me to write about (as far as I know, anyway), there are camellias, and so I shall devote this article to Tage Andersson’s touring camellia exhibition.
Years ago, when my brother and I were still little, mum took us to see Mr Andersen’s camellia exhibition when it came to Gothenburg. As I was too young at the time to have any recollection now of ever having seen the flowers, I feel oddly intrigued and curious to see his exhibition now that it returns to Gothenburg. When it was last here, in 2004, some 20 000 people went to see it. Obviously, I missed it at that time, but the number of visitors suggests that if you are at all interested in flowers and plants, the exhibition may be well worth a visit.
Although I know very little about camellias, I understand that some of them can grow quite tall. Indeed, several metres tall, if the information I have found is accurate. Amongst the more than one hundred camellias that Mr. Andersen has brought with him, some are between three to four metres tall! On Wikipedia, the camellia plant family – which consists of some 100-250 different species – includes evergreen shrubs as well as trees, which should account for the varying heights.
Mr Andersen’s camellias are on display at Trädgårdsföreningen between 6 March and 5 April. The music played in the background, in case you go and are wondering, should be Verdi’s opera La Traviata. Apparently there’s a connection between camellias and La Traviata, but Trädgårdsföreningen was not very specific on their website as to the exact nature of that connection.
So, for those of you who are eagerly awaiting the spring season and cannot wait any longer, there are flowers to be seen at Trädgårdsföreningen!
P.S.
Should you happen to see any camels in Gothenburg, please drop me a note so that I may write about that next week!
Information
- The exhibition is in Palmhuset, Trädgårdsföreningen (map).
- They are open daily between 11 AM and 6 PM.
- The entrance fee is 60 SEK.
/Nils, Misi.se team 2010











